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Did Covid Vaccination Rollouts Affect Birth Rates? A Look at the Post-2021 Numbers
The hypothesis that COVID-19 vaccines impact fertility started as an early social-media claim.
The hypothesis that COVID-19 vaccines impact fertility started as an early social-media claim. However, post-2021 fertility declines in many cou...
A Blind Genetic-Distance Quiz
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Take a look at these numbers before you read any further.
The Yann LeCun Effect: Why Pioneers Turn Into Dissidents
This is not a rigid law of intellectual history or a statistical certainty. It is a softer, yet undeniable pattern: the builder standing beside the cathedral, watching the pilgrims arrive, and quietly insisting they have completely misunder...
A Chihuahua, a Labrador, and the Limits of Genetic Distance
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The Arctic Cognition Gene, 13 Years Later
Cold winters, seasonality, farming, and the strange history of rs4680
In 2013 I published a paper about a small genetic variant with a large theoretical shadow: COMT Val158Met, also known as rs4680 (Piffer, 2013). At the time, what caught...
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I have worked in population genetics for the last ten years, besides chronobiology, evolutionary psychology, creativity, and behavioural genetics. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals
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