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Rebecca Sear
Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London. President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Life history traits and cancer prevalence in birdsacademic.oup.com AbstractBackground and objectives. Cancer is a disease that affects nearly all multicellular life, including the broad and diverse taxa of Aves. While litt
Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oiltheinfinitesimal.substack.com Predicting IQ from genetics is inaccurate, confounded, and sows confusion about genetic research.
Genomic findings and their implications for the evolutionary social scienceswww.sciencedirect.com What past selection pressures have shaped human traits and their variation and covariation across individuals? These are key questions in the evolutio…
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Call a spade a spadewww.sequencermag.com Trying to do something, anything, about racism and fascism in the 21st century
Call a spade a spadewww.sequencermag.com Trying to do something, anything, about racism and fascism in the 21st century
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disasterwww.theguardian.com The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – d...
ICFP 2025 Power Shifting Subcommittee Hosts Workshop on Equity in African Research - ICFPtheicfp.org
In memory of Anne Shepherdblogs.lse.ac.uk It is with great sadness that friends and colleagues from across the LSE share news of the death of Anne Shepherd, on Thursday 6 June 2024. Anne joined LSE in 2002, and until her retirement last au…
Kinship, lineage resources (wealth flow transfers), and intimate partner violence among women in Ghanawww.sciencedirect.com Previous research has established relationships between lineage and intimate partner violence (IPV). The findings suggest matrilineal women experience…
The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economywww.theguardian.com Costs, the climate crisis and choice are all factors in a demographic revolution presenting huge challenges for government
Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenicswww.theguardian.com Book says one of Australia’s most eminent scientists promoted discussion of eugenics in the 1960s and 70s, but not that he supported racist ideas – and researchers praise his thorough commitment to re...
Considerations, Caveats, and Suggestions for the Use of Polygenic Scores for Social and Behavioral Traits.escholarship.org Author(s): Cerdeña, Jessica; Non, Amy | Abstract: Polygenic scores (PGS) are increasingly being used for prediction of social and behavioral traits, but suffer from many methodological, theoretical, a...
Top scientists turning down UK jobs over ‘tax on talent’, says Wellcome bosswww.theguardian.com Next government urged to lower upfront visa costs that are 17 times higher than international average
Period 36: It's complicatedbuttondown.email So it’s been a while – between activism, parenting, book writing, and professoring it’s been hard to prioritize the newsletter. Here and on Bluesky, I feel...
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.www.bbc.co.uk We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics
Understanding the maternal brain in the context of the mental load of motherhood - Nature Mental Healthwww.nature.com This Review discusses the key factors that comprise the mental load of motherhood and the need to provide support for a healthy transition to motherhood.
The booming world of specialised private education for the super-richwww.theguardian.com Offer of £2m to tutor architecture student is latest sign of a new frontier in achieving a competitive advantage
Remittances may redefine the demographic support ratio - N-IUSSPwww.niussp.org When measuring the demographic support ratio, including only the country’s residents may prove insufficient. Lukas Tohoff, Daji Landis, Letizia Mencarini, and Arnstein Aassve develop a novel demograph...
A new data infrastructure for family research and demographic analysis: the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA)academic.oup.com Abstract. This data brief introduces the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; https://www.freda-panel.de/), a longitudinal, multi-actor database fo
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Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract themwww.statnews.com Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.
The legacy of eugenicspublichealth.berkeley.edu Professor Osagie K. Obasogie wants to bring the discredited theory out of hiding, in a national conversation that will prevent the repetition of the past.
View of Scientific racism: Histories, legacies and ethics Steve Biko Bioethics Lecture, 12 September 2023samajournals.co.za