Growing up in the age of genomics
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How will the latest findings in genetics affect the educational paths of children born in recent years? Read this post: Growing…
How will the latest findings in genetics affect the educational paths of children born in recent years? Read this post: Growing…
On May, 2016, a group of 256 authors published an article in Nature entitled “Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci…
Four crucial facts about race, sex, and biology that contradict this messy argument.In America, we've had a long history of…
This blog is part of the series "Small changes, big impacts: applying #behavioralscience into development". Access to an…
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A quiet revolution has begun. We now know enough about the genetic architecture of human intelligence to make predictions based…
A quiet revolution has begun. We now know enough about the genetic architecture of human intelligence to make predictions based…
A recently announced paper reports the results of an enormous genome-wide association study for educational attainment. The…
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Amy Mollett, Social Media Manager, rounds up how LSE currently uses Twitter for sharing research, interacting with…
Amy Mollett, Social Media Manager at the London School of Economics, rounds up how LSE currently uses Twitter for sharing…
We’ve all heard the caveats about the role of our genes in our lives: Genes aren’t destiny, nor are nature and nurture mutually…
Philip Ball has an article in the December issue of Prospect (ungated on his blog) arguing that consideration of the genetic…
By Robin…
Intelligence and its heritability has been a popular topic in scientific communities and public discussions for long. Recent…
By Beben Benyamin, The University of Queensland and Peter Visscher, The University of Queensland Intelligence, cognitive…
This is the fifth in a series of articles from Pacific Standard on Genes Are Us. These are not long articles, but they are…
Every Friday this month we’ve taken a look at the relationship between the social and the biological—specifically, how and why…
Image by Lara Mukahirn. Probably since before the origin of modern Homo sapiens, we have known that people from other places—the…
I ran across an interesting genetic study examining the potential genetic contributions to educational attainment. There have…
In late May, I…
Why do children resemble their parents? It’s a question that has intrigued people for millennia, and surprisingly, in spite of…
Publicado anteriormente no Bule Voador em 19 de junho de 2013 Um grande consórcio (Social Science Genetic Association Consortium…
Publicado anteriormente no Bule Voador em 19 de junho de 2013 Um grande consórcio (Social Science Genetic Association Consortium…
By Jonathan Latham, PhD (Originally posted July 31st and lost after a DDOS (electronic) attack). Variations in individual “educat…
By Jonathan Latham, PhD Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school…
Our Monday post raised quite a stir. It was triggered by a Science paper about a large mega-study on the genomics of…
Genes for educational achievement? So claims a paper in the 21 June issue of Science. A genome-wide association study (GWAS…
What kinds of research did people talk about in June? Here is another Interactions monthly wrap-up featuring a selection of 5…
Fusing enacted and expected mimicry generates a winning strategy that promotes the evolution of cooperation "reducing conflict…
Conférence de François Elie : Quelle école pour la société de l’information ? …
Conférence de François Elie : Quelle école pour la société de l’information ? …
. Le succès de la location saisonnière 2.0 300 000 des 500 000 locations de vacances réalisées en France en 2011 ont été effectué…
. Le succès de la location saisonnière 2.0 300 000 des 500 000 locations de vacances réalisées en France en 2011 ont été effectué…
Scientists have found that tiny changes to a person's genetic sequence are associated with one's educational level.
NYU (US) — Scientists have identified genetic markers that predict educational attainment based on data from more than 125,000.H…
Genetics may impact how long you stay in school—by a factor of a month or so. Photo by velkr0.Late update: Michelle Meyer, who…
Dictators are only nightmares, they don’t exist in real life. How much are the results of dictator games laboratory artifacts?
In Science this week: genetic variants associated with educational attainment, and more. read more
California.gov Everyone wants an easy answer to the big questions about genetics—is there a gay gene? A gene for…
In the…
This is NOT the BGI Cognitive Genomics project, it's the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium. Their main phenotype is…
A large genetic study finds gene variants with a subtle effect on scholastic achievement.A study published on Thursday in…
There are a variety of factors that determine the number of years a person goes to school – personality, finances, life…
A couple of years ago, Daniel J. Benjamin, a behavioral economist and associate professor at Cornell University, noticed a…