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Study finds genes associated with intelligence vary by race.

Genes associated with intelligence are also linked to latitude.

There are detectable differences in their DNA.

Adolescent brain reorganization takes place up to 10 years earlier in girls.

Whites share a gene mutation for light skin with some Middle Easterners and Indians.

Amerindians and Hispanics are most likely to have the variant.

Nicholas Wade's book--to be released in May--is sure to cause a huge stink.

Black women have slower metabolisms.

A British study has some surprises.

Conservative women are the happiest people. Liberal men are the unhappiest.

Skeptics of previous studies were probably genetically-predisposed to emphasize environment.

New study of 5,500 pairs of twins confirms what we already knew.

. . . where the President picks up The Sports Gene.

London's mayor dared suggest IQ has something to do with success.

New schemes to change human nature.

What you can do to help.

It's unlikely: few white Americans have black ancestry and the ones who do have very little.

Study of 12,000 twin pairs finds political affiliations are 60 percent heritable.

"We may need to consider our patient’s race when using certain heart disease therapies."

Whether we trust someone can change our perception of his appearance.

City is only 84 percent non-white, but NIH blames junk food.

Visiting professor defends research on group differences.

He asks: “Are we prepared to select out the imperfect among us?”

Indians acquired some of their European admixture at least 24,000 years ago.

The children do not look like their Gypsy parents.

They do not look African.

Some think race-specific treatment is "discriminatory."

Improving at multitasking is possible, but it does not affect IQ.

The New York Times discovers twin studies.

Children of rich people have a better chance of choosing environments that suit their genetic propensities.

Trusting people are more likely to acknowledge stereotypes.

Some of these gene variants are specific to blacks.

Are we declining for the same reason as the Romans?

Blacks are 60 percent more likely than whites to have soft tissue sarcoma.

Researcher claims in-group favoritism is learned.

Who needs IQ studies, anyway?

Who were more advanced: early modern humans or Neanderthals?

Jason Richwine explains experts' consensus on IQ--and why the media ignore it.

But the caste system has since limited inter-group mingling.

Mixed-race populations help researchers explore the human genome.

Tracing the origins of Northern Europeans' ability to drink milk.

Our most recent common ancestor goes back further than we thought.

Study of 11,000 twins finds genes account for 60 percent of the variation in results on key exam.

People who accept hierarchy say they are happier.

It's in their genes.

I, too, want an honest discussion of race in America.

Findings suggest different diagnostic tests may be needed for different groups.

Low vitamin D means more heart disease for whites and Asians, but not blacks and Hispanics.

Just what the Third World needs.

Couple selected the best from 13 embryos.

A study of the criminal brain.

Racial differences in insulin production and insulin sensitivity follow a familiar pattern.

"White is black, day is night, there are no IQ differences among ethnic groups."

They are more willing to apply the "one-drop rule."

Genes help explain blacks' higher risk for breast cancer and lower survival rates.

Researchers have found genes that account for 2 percent of the variation in school achievement.

"I don't apologize for any of my writing."

Should the magazine be called "Scientific" American?

The truth of racial differences in IQ pulls the rug from under "affirmative action."

Bill says "the word 'race' has no scientific validity. . . ."

23 Harvard student groups want Richwine's dissertation condemned, even if its claims are true.

Study author says it's due to the proliferation of less favorable genes.

One scientist as tried, but his findings are denounced as "racist and ideologically motivated."

Not Africans, as some have claimed.

Invertebrate accuses fellow invertebrate of spinelessness.

We're more genetically similar than once thought.

According to one theory they were Europeans.

Size and activity of hippocampus may be related to math-learning ability.

Study author says we should be wary of "reports of population differences in IQ."

If parents talk to their children it will eliminate the race gap in achievement.

Study finds blacks have a lower pain threshold than whites.

Professor famous for "racism" research made up data for dozens of studies.

As many as one in three Brits carry genes for red hair.

There was a major genetic shift but researchers don't understand the cause or the consequences.

Most of the time, race is an automatically salient category.