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y european pools of participants becomes highly unreliable when it is applied to those with different ancestries although it is a common trope to argue that we will have the answer to the question of the genetic basis of group differences in traits in the next five years or in the next decade the advances in genomics reveal that the question is far more complex than we could have imagined even just a few years ago consequently anyone who tells you that there s good evidence on how much genetics explain group differences rather than individual differences is fooling you or fooling themselves however there are some strong hints towards the answer the genetic variants that are most strongly associated with iq in europeans are no more population specific than any other trait to put it bluntly the same genetic variants associated with purportedly higher iq in europeans are also present in africans and have not emerged or been obviously selected for in recent evolutionary history outside africa moreover since it is a complex trait the genetic variation related to iq is broadly distributed across the genome rather than being clustered around a few spots as is the nature of the variation responsible for skin pigmentation these very different patterns for these two traits mean that the genes responsible for determining skin pigmentation cannot be meaningfully associated with the genes currently known to be linked to iq these observations alone rule out some of the cruder racial narratives about the genetics of intelligence it is virtually inconceivable that the primary determinant of racial categories that is skin colour is strongly associated with the genetic architecture that relates to intelligence finally multiple lines of evidence indicate that there are complex environmental effects as might reasonably be expected on measures of iq and educational attainment many socioeconomic and cultural factors are entangled with ancestry in the countries where these studies are often performed particularly in the usa where structural racism has historically and continues to hugely contribute to economic and social disparities we cannot use populations in these countries to help answer the question of why iq scores are claimed to be lower in other countries with entirely different social economic and cultural histories nor to answer the role of genetics for alleged differences in iq measures between groups inside a country with strong societal differences linked to ancestry for example the usa thus confident assertions that current gwas show us that race is associated with cognitive function are simply wrong it is our contention that any apparent population differences in iq scores are more easily explained by cultural and environmental factors than they are by genetics the history of our species is complex and convoluted and our genomes reflect that as we delve deeper into the dna of the people of the world the science of genetics becomes even more complex too but we see no scientifically sound evidence that contemporary genetics can be used to recapitulate biological or historical concepts for race it is our duty and wish that this understanding is spread far and wide ewan birney european molecular biology laboratory european bioinformatics institute jennifer raff department of anthropology university of kansas adam rutherford genetics evolution environment university college london aylwyn scally department of genetics university of cambridge the authors wish to thank stuart ritchi e for his valuable contributions to our discussion note comments for this post are not enabled race science anthropological genetics genetics population genetics race science science communication happy new year december 31 2018 jennifer raff 2 comments i hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday if you d like to read something about science i have a new ish post up at forbes to close the year out five amazing things we learned about history from ancient dna in 2018 every year ancient dna research deepens our understanding of history a bit more and 2018 was truly a remarkable year for ancient dna research by february the total number of genomes characterized from ancient individuals surpassed 1 300 i want to highlight five of what i think are the most interesting discoveries made this year thanks as always for reading jennifer and colin science selling trump s wall how a huckster is using gofundme to benefit himself december 28 2018 december 28 2018 colin 5 comments a disabled veteran and former fake news huckster has squeezed 17 million out of american conservatives with a promise to fund the wall the press has covered the crowdfunding campaign and even dug a bit into his shady prior endeavors but i can t find a single report really analyzing how the man behind this campaign brian kolfage is benefiting personally he s given an audience of disaffected conservatives frustrated by trump s failures a way to buy the feeling of a successful movement it s an unscrupulous way to monetize irrationality and xenophobia and it s going to succeed even as the campaign to fund the wall fails kolfage has sued people in the past for criticizing him with that in mind i ll point out the obvious this piece shares previously reported facts about kolfage and his campaign as well as my opinions based on those facts for example the numbers below come from the linked public sources my conclusion based on those reported facts that kolfage is an unscrupulous huckster is purely my opinion i do not have any reason to believe that he has broken any laws unneeded unwise unfunded continue reading communication irrationality uncategorized border wall communications conservative donald trump fundraising gofundme trump we can make 2019 less of a triumph for conspiracy theories december 19 2018 december 18 2018 colin 9 comments this was a big year for conspiracy theories they ve staked out more space in the headlines than we used to be comfortable with and stayed long enough that we re starting to get used to it the energy feeding them comes from above as trump and other mainstream media figures find new ways to harness conspiracy theory culture and from below as movements like q anon find ways to raise their profile with cynical self awareness october was particularly gruesome while relatively benign groups were busy ginning up new conspiracy theories for the benefit of the us and russian governments a bizarre flipflop of their traditional hostility to mainstream power two men made headlines in a horribly familiar way one murdered eleven people at a synagogue in pittsburgh and the other mailed more than a dozen bombs to trump s critics they apparently both believed that jews and liberals were plotting against them and they decided to fight their imaginary enemies by slaughtering strangers the wall of stickers on the maga bomber s van were a perfect visual representation of the fog of angry paranoia fueling that movement today these are two different expressions of the same basic phenomenon not every conspiracy theorist will act on their beliefs and even fewer will become violent but those extremists aren t arising in a vacuum they radicalize over time after years of absorbing frantic paranoid calls to action the culture that grows up around particularly invidious conspiracy theories we can t do much to control the bell end of violent extremists directly only law enforcement is really equipped to do that and unfortunately only after the damage has already been done but going into the holidays and 2019 we and that does include you the reader can do something to disarm the culture that radicalizes them continue reading communication conspiracy theory irrationality some archaeology reading to kick off this week december 17 2018 december 17 2018 jennifer raff 1 comment my latest for forbes discusses the new paper by rascovan and colleagues emergence and spread of basal lineages of yersinia pestis during the neolithic decline researchers investigated the hypothesis that the so called neolithic decline population decreases throughout europe was caused at least in part by pandemics to do this they cleverly made use of one feature of paleogenomics that often causes researchers to tear their hair out when we sequence or genotype ancient dna extractions we get back data from all the dna extracted from the ancient source including large amounts of microbial dna this can be incredibly frustrating if you re trying to reconstruct a genome of the human whose bone or tooth or hair you re extracting from it can be enormously expensive to sequence enough dna to get a whole human genome however in this case the researchers were able to look at published datasets to see if they could find evidence of pathogens in dna published from neolithic individuals buried in a high density passage grave in the frälsegården cemetery in falbygden western sweden you can read more here archaeohlrau who works on trypillia mega sites which rascovan et al implicated in the origins of plague did a twitter thread on this paper critiquing some of their interpretations and providing some much needed context for example and most importantly there are no human remains from mega sites thus their hypothesis of a plague outbreak can t be falsified inhumations occur at the end of trypillia during the transition to burial mounds or in special contexts like the verteba cave rené ohlrau archaeohlrau december 7 2018 i highly recommend you check out his thread on the subject h t monicamedhist for more forbes archaeology awesomeness check out this story by david anderson about the resilience of hohokam canal builders in the face of environmental disasters despite the odds members of the hohokam culture were able to work together to bring an agricultural lifestyle to a harsh desert environment for one thousand years this success required collaborative labor to maintain a system of civil infrastructure in the form of an extensive system of canals repeated environmental catastrophes however can wear down even the most prepared societies something people today should perhaps keep in mind and kristina killgrove tackled the fascinating question of whether or not a gold artifact was a roman nipple cover connecting the difficulties of interpreting the purpose of ancient artifacts without projecting our own ideas upon the past to tumblr s new terms of service in response to recent terms of service changes at tumblr that ban adult content many users of the microblogging site are firing back trolling the site s administrators with non pornographic images that they worry will be banned by the new policy this ancient roman nipple cover posted by peashooter85 is one such image and it has gained tens of thousands of responses in a couple days time there s one problem though archaeologists are unsure about that identification you can read the full post here if you have any questions feel free to drop them in the comment section or hit me up on twitter although if you see me on there too much feel free to remind me that i should be working on my book or academic papers instead edited to add if you d rather listen to a podcast than read a new archaeological fantasies episode that i m on just dropped science round up of forbes blogs december 8 2018 jennifer raff 5 comments i am absolutely terrible at promoting my writing i m going to try to remedy that by posting links to my forbes blogs regularly here i didn t write very much last month i was extremely busy with academic stuff and drafting the first chapter of my book but usually i aim for about 5 pieces a month covering topics in genetics and anthropology here s my latest on the origins of milk pastoralism in northern mongolia https www forbes com sites jenniferraff 2018 12 07 how bronze age northern mongolian peoples got milk 40b24b841588 and here s a page with links to all my past pieces https www forbes com sites jenniferraff 350bd02f3eef would you rather i post them here as they come out or do a monthly round up of links i don t want to clog up your inboxes and i do post them as they come out on my twitter let me know what you prefer in the comments and as always thanks for reading science your q anon exit briefing december 4 2018 december 5 2018 colin 37 comments i usually write about conspiracy theories not for conspiracy theorists this one is different this is a piece for people who have been part of the q anon movement specifically the people who are beginning to get tired of its endless empty promises and are starting to get skeptical continue reading communication conspiracy theory irrationality conspiracy theories d5 q q anon exciting news october 18 2018 jennifer raff 9 comments for the last year alongside learning about the joys and challenges of new motherhood and doing my academic work i ve also been quietly working on a new project that new project is finally in a place where i can share it with people i m thrilled to announce that last week i signed a book contract with twelve books my book which is tentatively titled origin will be a history of the americas from initial peopling to the present day through the lens of genetics but i m also going to use this as an opportunity to continue my blogging mission on a bigger scale to teach people about the fundamentals of genetics ancient dna and showcase stories from the remarkable work of my colleagues in the field of anthropological genetics i m not just going to be talking about the science either the news of elizabeth warren s genetic testing results this week has highlighted just how interested the public is in the intersection of questions about ancestry and identity and just how confused people are about what dna testing results mean and don t mean i want to do my small part to help people understand these issues particularly when it comes to claims about native american ancestry as i did earlier this week in my new piece for forbes and oh yes i will be talking about race and genetics i may do it imperfectly but i m not going to shy away from that topic when it s so critical to this present moment i m acutely aware of the fact that i m a non native person writing about extraordinarily sensitive issues and i am grateful for the help that many of my native american colleagues have generously offered for this project i m also grateful to the many scientists both native and non native whose research i will be featuring if you would like to chat with me about your work email me or hit me up at the aapas so if all goes well i should have a finished manuscript in about a year from now and a published book a little while after that i ll let everyone know more when we are closer to having a book for you to read thank you all so much for your support and good wishes they really mean the world to me science we had an adverse reaction to the mmr vaccine october 15 2018 colin 58 comments last week our son ox had an adverse reaction to the mmr vacc...