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Do European Polygenic Scores Predict Differences Within China? New Evidence From 28 Provinces

What happens when you take genetic scores built in Europe and ask them to predict variation inside a non-European country?

21 hrs ago • Davide Piffer

Fire: The Spark That Ignited Cognitive Evolution

Before fields and flocks, humans farmed fire.

Dec 11 • Davide Piffer

How Genetically Homogeneous Are Europeans and East Asians – and Do They Form Separate Clusters?

Includes an interactive Fst app to play with all pairwise distances between European and East Asian populations.

Dec 10 • Davide Piffer

Is Italy's Native Population Being Replaced?

How collapsing native births, immigration and mixed families are reshaping the cradle.

Dec 6 • Davide Piffer

There Was Never a Sapient Paradox

A critique of the standard model of behavioral modernity and the assumptions behind it.

Dec 5 • Davide Piffer

Brain Drain Is Mostly a Myth. The Real Problem Is Who Comes Back.

And the Slow Disappearance of Italy’s Native Population

Dec 4 • Davide Piffer

The Three Ingredients of Italian Crime

A data-driven tour of immigration, density, and geography

Dec 3 • Davide Piffer

Let That Skin In: Ancient DNA and the Evolution of Human Skin Colour

How migration and genetics shaped human pigmentation

Dec 1 • Davide Piffer

November 2025

Video Presentation: Genomic Evidence for Clark’s Theory of the Industrial Revolution

Here is the narrated slide deck that my co author, Prof.

Nov 29 • Davide Piffer

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Part II: The Four Races of Europe

How the Four Ancestries Shaped Europe’s Biological and Cognitive Landscape

Nov 28 • Davide Piffer

The Four Races of Europe (Part I): The Aryan paradox

How Deep Ancestry Still Affects Us

Nov 26 • Davide Piffer

Why Individual Prediction Doesn’t Scale to Group Differences in Polygenic Scores: Debunking a Common Fallacy

I’m starting to get tired of answering the same objections to polygenic scores (PGS) again and again, so I want to deal with one especially obnoxious…

Nov 21 • Davide Piffer

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