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How Much Did the Slavic Migrations Change Greece?
The genetic legacy is real, but it is not the same in every part of the country
 • Davide Piffer
Are Dogs Replacing Children?
Testing the Boss Baby Hypothesis
 • Davide Piffer
What Have Neanderthals Done for Us? The Claims That Survive a Fact Check
The story that sent me looking
 • Davide Piffer
How “Aryan” Are South Asians?
A follow-up to the India post, testing its qpAdm design and a Sarazm alternative in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Haryana
 • Davide Piffer
The Genetic Geography of Patience
Across 49 countries, nine measures point the same way—but the signal weakens after accounting for population history
 • Davide Piffer
Did the “Neanderthal Muscle Gene” Really Turn Modern Humans into Muscle Heads?
A real molecular effect, a relatively large single-SNP association, and the limits of a catchy label
 • Davide Piffer
How Aryan Are Indians?
Steppe ancestry, the Indus substrate, and why India has no single answer
 • Davide Piffer
Can Genes Help Countries Get Rich?
A genetic test of one of the oldest questions in economics
 • Davide Piffer
AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
 • Davide Piffer
Female Farmers, Jōmon Men, and the Hidden Polygyny Assumption
A new genetic study argues that continental women, not unusually successful Jōmon men, created Japan’s sex-biased ancestry.
 • Davide Piffer
Genes, Meat, or Soy: What Best Predicts Human Height?
Average height at age 18 is partly inherited and is also an imperfect cumulative marker of growth conditions from prenatal life through adolescence.
 • Davide Piffer

July 2026

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