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Evolutionary analysis of 69 primate species shows:
✅There is a global problem solving ability in primates
✅Tool use is the best proxy of 5 examined behaviors
✅Species with larger brains tend to be better problem solvers

Using macroevolutionary patterns to distinguish primary from secondary cognitive modules in primate cross-species performance data on five cognitive ability measures
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101645

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#brain #primate #behavior #intelligence
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Forwarded from House of Wagner (Werkat)
New blogpost on learning, memory, knowledge, & intelligence:
https://werkat.substack.com/p/learning-memory-knowledge-and-intelligence-14a?s=w
half-baked thoughts
Learning, Memory, Knowledge, & Intelligence
Notions that individuals differ in 'general knowledge' are sensible
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Everybody's Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide

https://hwfo.substack.com/p/everybodys-lying-about-the-link-between?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&s=r

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#GunControl #homicide #crime
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Manufacturing white criminals: Depictions of criminality and violence on Law & Order

"whites are disproportionately portrayed as criminals 5-8 times more often on police dramas compared to actual crime statistics for the city of New York"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2015.1104977

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#white #crime #race
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Taylor & Francis
Manufacturing white criminals: Depictions of criminality and violence on Law & Order
This study examines exposure to the police drama television genre and its impact on perceptions of crime and racial criminality. Content analyses of three seasons of Law & Order were examined to ev...
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Pregnant Woman Uses AR-15 To Protect Husband, Daughter From Home Invasion
https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/06/pregnant-woman-ar-15-home-invasion-florida/

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#gun #crime
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The Daily Caller
Pregnant Woman Uses AR-15 To Protect Husband, Daughter From Home Invasion
A pregnant mother used an AR-15 rifle to defend her husband and 11-year-old daughter from two violent intruders in their Lithia, Florida, home three years ago.
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"We show that the overall sex difference in the pattern of adolescents' achievement and academic attitudes is relatively large and similar across countries... We found that the sex of students in any country can be reliably predicted."

Sex-specific academic ability and attitude patterns in students across developed countries
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289620300313

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#education #SexDifferences
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Racial diversity of Americans friendship networks diversified at snails pace over the past decade:

American Bubbles: Politics, Race, and Religion in Americans’ Core Friendship Networks
https://prri.org/research/american-bubbles-politics-race-and-religion-in-americans-core-friendship-networks/

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#diversity #USA #race
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New GWAS-based study applied polygenic scores for heritable traits such as intelligence to ancient European populations: "Our results revealed that after the Neolithic, European populations experienced an increase in... intelligence scores."

Evolutionary Trajectories of Complex Traits in European Populations of Modern Humans
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.833190/full

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#intelligence #genetics #europe
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Frontiers
Frontiers | Evolutionary Trajectories of Complex Traits in European Populations of Modern Humans
Humans have a great diversity in phenotypes, influenced by genetic, environmental, nutritional, cultural, and social factors. Understanding the historical tr...
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Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
https://archive.ph/ZR6y9

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#trans #LGBT
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archive.ph
Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S. - T…
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Does discrimination cause poor mental health in sexual minorities?
https://easthunter.substack.com/p/does-discrimination-cause-poor-mental?s=w

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#LGBT #MentalHealth #discrimination
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East Hunter
Does discrimination cause poor mental health in sexual minorities?
A literature takedown
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"Of the some 1.6-1.8 million asylum seekers who arrived during the two-year crisis, only 460,00 are employed"

German Federal Employment Agency on the 2015-16 migrants.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/900000-migrants-social-welfare/

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#immigration #refugees #germany
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Germany: Nearly 900,000 Migrants From 2015/16 Still Live on Social Welfare
The European Conservative
Germany: Nearly 900,000 Migrants From 2015/16 Still Live on Social Welfare 
Official government data has revealed that nearly 900,000 migrants, around half of those who arrived in Germany during the migrant crisis of 2015-2016, stil ...
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The Genomics of Human Local Adaptation

"In recent years, new methods to identify the genomic signatures of natural selection underlying these adaptations, combined with novel types of genetic data (eg, ancient DNA), have provided unprecedented insights into the origin of adaptive alleles and the modes of adaptation."
https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(20)30070-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0168952520300706%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

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#race #genetics
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NEW YORK TIMES Thugs Trying To Cancel Michael Woodley For Reporting Human Diversity Science—But They’re Guilty Too
https://vdare.com/articles/new-york-times-thugs-trying-to-cancel-michael-woodley-for-reporting-human-diversity-science-but-they-re-guilty-too
VDARE.com
NEW YORK TIMES Thugs Trying To Cancel Michael Woodley For Reporting Human Diversity Science—But They’re Guilty Too
The New York Times is attempting to destroy the ...
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A study that investigated whether two early nutritional interventions might influence long-term outcomes like intelligence in a sub-Saharan African population found that they "did not have a large effect on development outcomes."


Effect of antenatal and infant micronutrient supplementation on middle childhood and early adolescent development outcomes in Tanzania
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679819/#!po=14.4737

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#nutrition #africa #intelligence
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PubMed Central (PMC)
Effect of antenatal and infant micronutrient supplementation on middle childhood and early adolescent development outcomes in Tanzania
There is growing evidence that nutritional interventions in the first 1,000 days of life may influence long-term health and development outcomes. Few studies have examined the effect of maternal and infant micronutrient supplementation on development ...
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Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes

"We found no support for any downside to higher [IQ] and no evidence for a threshold beyond which greater scores cease to be beneficial. Thus, greater cognitive ability is generally advantageous—and virtually never detrimental."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691620964122

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#intelligence
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The Left Is Making the Wrong Case on Gun Deaths. Here’s a Better Case
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/the-left-is-making-the-wrong-case?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&s=r

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#guns
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Handwaving Freakoutery
The Left Is Making the Wrong Case on Gun Deaths. Here’s a Better Case.
The "gun deaths" problem is a "men's health" problem.
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Stereotype threat fails in a new large-sample study

Stereotype threat, gender and mathematics attainment: A conceptual replication of Stricker & Ward
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267699

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#StereotypeThreat
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journals.plos.org
Stereotype threat, gender and mathematics attainment: A conceptual replication of Stricker & Ward
Stereotype threat has been proposed as one cause of gender differences in post-compulsory mathematics participation. Danaher and Crandall argued, based on a study conducted by Stricker and Ward, that enquiring about a student’s gender after they had finished…
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America’s first CRISPR trial is still nearly 100% effective 3 years on
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/crispr-vertex-long-term-follow-up-gene-editing-sickle-cell/

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#CRISPR #genetics #health
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New Atlas
America’s first CRISPR trial is still nearly 100% effective 3 years on
Incredible new data presented recently at the European Hematology Association Congress has revealed an experimental CRISPR gene editing therapy is both safe and effective up to three years after treatment. The follow-up results come from one of the longest…
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