Hercules and Telephos. Fresco from Herculaneum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Skin color is perceived through the lens of a mental algorithm that initially arose for gender recognition. People can tell whether a face is male or female even if the image is blurred and provides no…
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The Burakumin of Japan, the Paekchong of Korea, and the Cagots of France
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Human eye colors (Prof. Richard A. Sturm, University of Queensland) Europeans have many hair and eye colors. Those two polymorphisms arose about the…
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Areas of high prevalence of Tay-Sachs, eastern Quebec In French Canada, two alleles for Tay-Sachs arose independently, and over a short time span, in…
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Regressive cognitive evolution in the West
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Household workshop for leather working (Wikicommons – Sovereign Hill Museum) The high mean IQ of Europeans is relatively recent in origin, as is that of…
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Distribution of Jews in central and eastern Europe, circa 1900 (Wikicommons) For almost a millennium, Ashkenazi Jews saw their mean cognitive ability…
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Parsi population in India (Chaubey et al. 2019, Fig. 1) Increased longevity is associated with 217 of the 420 genetic variants that are specific to the…
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