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The original meaning of skin color
Hercules and Telephos. Fresco from Herculaneum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Skin color is perceived through the lens of a mental algorithm that…
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Castes and evolutionary stasis
The Burakumin of Japan, the Paekchong of Korea, and the Cagots of France
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A people of many colors
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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French Canadians and recent cognitive evolution
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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The Great Decline
Regressive cognitive evolution in the West
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Europeans and recent cognitive evolution
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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Ashkenazi Jews and recent cognitive evolution
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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Peter Frost’s Newsletter
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I have a PhD in anthropology from Université Laval. My main research interest is the role of sexual selection in shaping highly visible human traits, notably skin color, hair color, and eye color. Other research interests include gene-culture coevolution.
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"European Hair, Eye, and Skin Color: Solving the Puzzle"Academica Press
"Femmes claires, hommes foncés. Les racines oubliées du colorisme"Presses de l'Université Laval
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