American universities spent the last decade having to pretend that intelligence, the most defining human trait, emergent from biology, is neither adaptive nor heritable. A waste of a decade.
New from David's Reich's lab: "In the past ten millennia [in Europe], we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection," including those influencing human intelligence.
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I went to university 50 years ago and can attest this has been the case for at least 50 years.
Apr 16, 2026 · 12:20 PM UTC
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