A new Nature study rewrites the history of Papua New Guinea: relevance for Holocene-selection on intelligence
The island of New Guinea constitutes the northern part of the Sahul paleo-continent, just south of the equator.
A new study published in Nature (Mondal et al., 2025) has provided crucial validation for what I've long suspected about Papua New Guinea's outlier patterns in polygenic score analyses. While I've always accounted for the importance of differen…