What matters most: nature or nurture, genes or environment, ancestry or upbringing? The conventional wisdom argues for the malleable latter, even though twin and adoption studies typically find more substantial evidence for nature than for nurture. Yet, I would like to encourage hereditarians to not get overconfident just because they so soundly defeat the politically ascendant nurturists on the rare occasions when they can lure them into scientific debate. Today, I want to point out a limitation on twin studies that opens up the likelihood that Hegel’s notion of the zeitgeist (spirit of ...
We are told"actually, we have it drilled into our skulls with nonstop ideological jackhammers and Shame Tasers almost from birth"that no one is "born racist," whatever the hell that ...
For fifteen years, I"ve been writing long analyses of how the data found in Olympic results can help us answer fundamental questions about nature v. nurture, human biodiversity, race, and sex ...
Last week in rural western Alabama, members of the Christian Identity movement teamed up with Klansmen to host a three-day shindig that ended on Friday with a cross burning. The ...
The most intriguing gossip about Tiger Woods in a new tell-all book by his ex-swing coach is that at the height of his career in 2006-07, the world's highest-paid athlete ...
The Pink Mafia’s tirelessly active activists recently upbraided former Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon for insisting that her switch from a heterosexual lifestyle to a ...
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” So King Solomon told us (Proverbs 22.vi). A great many parents, down ...
Due to Polish president Lech KaczyÅski's death in the tragic April 10 plane crash, his identical twin brother JarosÅaw, Poland's brooding former prime minister, announced on ...
What does it take to be a genius? Europeans of the Romantic Era tended to ascribe the accomplishments of the great to an inborn spark. In contrast, in this age in which voracious ...
In South-Central Los Angeles in 1940, a Mexican immigrant gave her son a 51-cent tennis racket for his 12th birthday. After wandering over to the park and watching how the sport ...
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