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Italy’s Fertility Collapse Is No Longer About Delay
For decades, Italy's extremely low fertility has been explained away as postponement.
 • Davide Piffer
Neanderthals Interbred With Us. How Genetically Different Were They?
On divergence, hybridization, and the limits of species labels
 • Davide Piffer
Europeans Didn’t Evolve as One Population
Ancient DNA shows that ancestry influences traits, but evolutionary trajectories reshape them
 • Davide Piffer
The Genetic Formation of the Han Chinese: Longshan Expansion and Early Homogenization
A new ancient DNA study, “Reconstructing the genetic formation of Han Chinese from ancient genomes”, provides one of the clearest pictures yet of how…
 • Davide Piffer
Why Do Some Countries Win So Many Olympic Medals?
Wealth, Cold Climates, and the Political Economy of Sporting Success
 • Davide Piffer
A Debate on Race and Genomic Prediction: Geneticist vs. Heterodox Leftist Logician
Reflections on a debate between Barbujani, Odifreddi, and Barbero
 • Davide Piffer
Did Brain Size Decline After the Upper Paleolithic?
Since at least the mid-20th century, when anthropologists such as Weidenreich (1946) noted that some Pleistocene crania exceed modern averages…
 • Davide Piffer
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