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  • The Mysterious Flynn Effect

    American Renaissance - Apr 11th 2021 8:00am EDT

    The Flynn Effect (FE) has become the accepted term for the increase in IQs that has been reported in many developed countries during the 20th century. The FE has also recently been reported in two developing countries, Dominica and Sudan. In fact, the term Flynn Effect is a misnomer, because the rise of IQs was […]

  • Out of Africa?

    American Renaissance - Apr 4th 2021 8:00am EDT

    Researchers led by Prof. Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have placed a very large question mark over the currently fashionable “out-of-Africa” theory of the origins of modern man. They have done this by producing a partial genome from three fossil bones belonging to female Neanderthals from Vindija Cave in […]

  • Researchers Identify 50 New Eye Color Genes

    American Renaissance - Apr 2nd 2021 1:00pm EDT

    The largest genome-wide association study for eye color to date, involving up to 192,986 European participants from 10 populations, has identified 124 independent associations arising from 61 genomic regions, including 50 previously unidentified, and demonstrated that several of these genes also have an effect on eye color in Asians. “Eye color is primarily determined by […]

  • Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

    American Renaissance - Apr 2nd 2021 1:00pm EDT

    The climate movement is ascendant, and it has become common to see climate change as a social justice issue. Climate change and its effects—pandemics, pollution, natural disasters—are not universally or uniformly felt: the people and communities suffering most are disproportionately Black, Indigenous and people of color. It is no surprise then that U.S. surveys show that these […]