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Category Archives: HBD
Nicholas Wade on Genes, Race, and Human History
Nicholas Wade is the rarest of species: a NYT science reporter who is (and has been for many years) open-minded about the tenets of HBD, up to and including (gasp!) the role of genes and IQ, and racial biodiversity on … Continue reading
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HBD: Intelligence & NPTN Gene
The Telegraph reports on a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry: A gene which may make people more intelligent has been discovered by scientists. Researchers have found that teenagers who had a highly functioning NPTN gene performed better in intelligence … Continue reading
Jared Taylor: Race Differences in Intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJNVb0GnPI#t=44
Blue-Eyed Hunter-Gatherers Roamed Prehistoric Europe, Gene Map Reveals
Genetic analysis of a “7,000-year-old Spaniard” reveals that “early Europeans sported blue eyes and dark skin.” From National Geographic: Mapping the blue-eyed boy’s genes is part of ongoing effort to uncover the DNA of ancient humans. The new study in … Continue reading
NYT: Brain Size & Cognitive Advancement
In the NYT Science section is an article on a recent thesis correlating human brain size with intelligence: At three pounds, it is gigantic relative to our body size. Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, have brains that are only a … Continue reading
Evidence of Ancient Human History Encoded in Music’s Complex Patterns
Science Daily reports on the recent study “Correlations in the population structure of music, genes and language“, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Nov. 19, 2013 — In the same way that fragments of ancient pottery and … Continue reading
Ancient Memories
New research findings from the radical world of epigenetics: Lab mice trained to fear a particular smell can transfer the impulse to their unborn sons and grandsons through a mechanism in their sperm, a study reveals. The research claims to … Continue reading
Mice Inherit the Fears of Their Fathers
Another door opens, one of many studies in recent years discerning a greater plasticity of mind. The nature/nurture (or genetics/environment) binary is getting increasingly blurred, which, in our liberal “it’s 100% culture” bubble, means an advantage for genetics.
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Carnivorous Caterpillar
There’s an HBD lesson here, for us humans. Those who appear before you are, often, not who they seem.
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Study Claims Poverty Reduces Brain Power
A bold thesis from experimental psychologists at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Warwick, and other universities: Poverty and the all-consuming fretting that comes with it require so much mental energy that the poor have little brain power left to devote … Continue reading