Agency and Adaptation
Humans have not merely been shaped by evolution—we have shaped it too, through the environments we chose to inhabit and the lives we chose to lead.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 8 min read
Evolution & Human Nature
A collection of 26 posts
Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 14 min read
Manosfear
Theroux’s documentary on the Manosphere tells half the story—the loudly accessible, politically convenient half.
Robert King
· 17 min read
The Death of the Dating App
Evolutionary psychology suggests an explanation for why so many people have found dating apps a frustrating experience.
Andrew King
· 7 min read
Criminal Research
European jurists should not seek to arbitrate controversial matters best settled by science.
Rosalind Arden
· 14 min read
Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
This is a story of some of the greatest findings in modern research, and of the dismal narrow-mindedness and motivated reasoning displayed by scholars who ought to know better.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 14 min read
Males in the Tails?
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
Theodore P. Hill
· 18 min read
US Immigration Threatened to Separate Twin Sons Born to Gay Fathers: Quillette Cetera Episode 14
A conversation with twin expert Nancy L. Segal.
Zoe Sankey, Nancy L. Segal
· 2 min read
Deliberately Divided—A Review
A Review of Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart by Nancy L. Segal. Rowman & Littlefield, 520 pages (November, 2021) When I first heard about the Louise Wise Services-Child Development Center (LWS-CDC) twin study, I was shocked but also skeptical. A doctor had separated
Bo Winegard
· 8 min read
Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children
More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.
David K. Ryden
· 13 min read
Shame and Silence: The LWS Twin Studies Revisited
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
Nancy L. Segal
· 8 min read
Right of Reply: Our Response to Jerry Coyne
Careless in his facts, Coyne is also careless in his references.
Günter Bechly, Brian Miller and David Berlinski
· 14 min read
Quillette Podcast 19 – Assistant Psychology Professor Bo Winegard on Hereditarianism, Centrism and the Great Awokening
Listen onSpotify Toby Young talks to Bo Winegard, long-standing Quillette contributor and assistant psychology professor, about three of his articles: On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism, Centrism: A Moderate Manifesto and The Preachers of the Great Awokening.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Do Parents Make a Difference? — A Public Debate in London
Plomin made it clear he wasn’t claiming genetic differences accounted for all the differences in how children turn out.
Toby Young
· 10 min read
Narrow Roads of Bozo Land — How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Adam Perkins
· 10 min read