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The Farmer Signal in Intelligence Appears in East Asia Too: The Rise of the Han

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Davide Piffer
May 01, 2026
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There is a pattern in ancient DNA that keeps reappearing: the first large farming populations did not just change how people ate. They changed the biological and social trajectory of entire continents.

In Europe, I previously found a positive association between Early European Farmer / Anatolian farmer ancestry and educational-attainment PGS. That was no…

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