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MANKIND Quarterly VOLUME 57, No. 4, 482-715 Summer 2017 MANKIND Quarterly EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GERHARD MEISENBERG (Dominica, East Caribbean) ASSISTANT EDITOR RICHARD LYNN (Bristol, UK) EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek, Alexandria, Egypt Jüri Allik, Tartu, Estonia Alsedig Abdalgadr Al-Shahomee, Bayda, Libya Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Adel Abdul Jaleel Batterjee, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Raymond Chan, Beijing, China Hsin-Yi Chen, Taipei, Taiwan Brunetto Chiarelli, Florence, Italy Jelena Čvorović, Belgrade, Serbia Edward Dutton, Oulu, Finland Lee Ellis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Michele Ernandes, Palermo, Italy Aurelio Jose Figueredo, Tucson AZ, USA Andrei Grigoriev, Moscow, Russia Helje Kaarma, Tartu, Estonia Anahit Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, Armenia Kenya Kura, Gifu-shi, Japan Umberto Melotti, Rome, Italy Edward M. Miller, New Orleans LA, USA Adrian Poruciuc, Iasi, Romania Jiannong Shi, Beijing, China Goran Štrkalj, Sydney, Australia Dmitri Ushakov, Moscow, Russia Tian Xie, Wuhan, China Mankind Quarterly is published by Ulster Institute for Social Research, London, UK and printed in the USA. © 2017 Ulster Institute for Social Research ISSN 0025-2344 MANKIND QUARTERLY 2017 57:4 CONTENTS Editorial ..................................................................................................... 482 Decapitation of Humans and Anthropomorphic Figurines in the Kura-Araks Culture from Armenia Anahit Yu. Khudaverdyan ........................................................................... 487 Differences in Intelligence and Socio-Economic Outcomes across the Twenty Seven States of Brazil Richard Lynn, Mayra Antonelli-Ponti, Rodrigo Focosi Mazzei, José Aparecido Da Silva and Gerhard Meisenberg .................................... 519 Admixture in Argentina Emil O.W. Kirkegaard and John Fuerst ...................................................... 542 Sex Differences on the Coloured Progressive Matrices in Sudan Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet, Nasser Sayed Gomaa Abdelrasheed, Helen Cheng, Richard Lynn, Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa and Tahanei Abdulrahman Muhammed Blahmar .............................................. 581 A Study of the Intelligence of South Sudanese Refugee Children Habab Abdlahiy Osman, Salaheldin Farah Attallah Bakhiet, Asma Sirageldin Fathelrahman Ahmed, Nourallah Ahmed Ganem Alnaier and Richard Lynn ........................................................................................ 585 Lineage Population: A Concept Needed by an Observer of Nature? John Fuerst ................................................................................................. 590 Group Differences in Adaptive Behavior: Evidence from the USA Harrison Kane and Nawithara Foythong ..................................................... 632 Differences in the Intelligence of 15 Year Olds in 42 Provinces and Cities of the Russian Federation and Their Economic, Social and Geographical Correlates Richard Lynn, Helen Cheng and Andrei Grigoriev ...................................... 659 MANKIND QUARTERLY 2017 57:4 Intelligence and Intellectual Property Rights Protection: The Global Evidence Shoirahon Odilova and Gu Xiaomin ............................................................ 669 The Intelligence of Yakuts and Ethnic Russians in Yakutia Vladimir Shibaev and Richard Lynn ............................................................ 680 Testing Spearman’s Hypothesis with Alternative Intelligence Tests: A Meta-Analysis Jan te Nijenhuis, Michael van den Hoek and Denise Willigers .................... 687 About Mankind Quarterly ............................................................................ 706 Notes for Authors ........................................................................................ 708 Index to Volume 57 ..................................................................................... 710 Mankind Quarterly is a refereed quarterly journal published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research, 28 Haycroft Gardens, London NW10 3BN, UK. Telephone +44 7 887 672 738. Fax +44 20 8181 4941. Email: [email protected]. Web site: www.mankindquarterly.org. The price for a one-year subscription to the Print version is US$170.00 (plus US$23.00 postage to Non-US destinations), US$193.00 for the Electronic version or US$239.00 for a combined Print and Electronic subscription (plus US$23.00 postage to Non-US destinations). Electronic subscriptions are only available to Institutions with dedicated IP addresses, and there is an additional charge for access from multiple IP ranges beyond five. Private individuals may subscribe to the Print version at a privilege price of US$64.00 when mailed to their home addresses (plus US$23.00 for Non-US addresses). For further details, including payment methods, visit www.mankindquarterly.org/subscribe. Cover picture: A market seller in Yakutsk, capital of the Siberian region of Yakutia, offers an Arctic hare for sale in addition to deep-frozen fish. Yakutsk is the coldest city (population > 100,000) on Earth, with an average winter temperature of -38ºC, and the only one of comparable size to be built on permafrost. See the article by Vladimir Shibaev and Richard Lynn on page 680. MANKIND QUARTERLY 2017 57:4 482-486 Editorial Archaeogenetics: (Pre-)history Goes Molecular One year ago, in the Summer 2016 issue of Mankind Quarterly, I wrote an editorial drawing the reader’s attention to a “paradigm shift” in the social sciences, triggered by the discovery of genetic variants associated with educational attainment. Three large meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) had reported about one hundred regions in the genome in which common genetic variants (single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) are statistically associated with educational attainment. Each of these regions is inferred to contain a gene, with common variants in the gene affecting the chances of staying in school or earning an educational degree. It was obvious that suddenly, studies were becoming possible that had been unthinkable only a few years earlier. What happened to this “scientific revolution” during the last year? Did it produce any dramatic new insights, or was it all hype? At the time, we already had first results from the United States showing that family advantage and social mobility are driven in part by “educational attainment genes” that children have inherited from their parents (Domingue et al., 2015). Could these results be confirmed in further studies? The most relevant new insights have come from a relatively small (N = 919) but thorough study in New Zealand (Belsky et al., 2016). It showed that a polygenic score for educational attainment was associated with numerous outcomes: (1) As expected, it predicted attainment of higher educational degrees. The effect was weak (r = .15), with a 19% increased risk of a university degree for a one standard deviation rise in polygenic score. (2) Children with higher polygenic scores showed accelerated cognitive development, had better self-control and better interpersonal skills. (3) Adult attainment was higher: more prestigious occupations, higher income, more accumulated assets, less welfare benefits, and higher credit scores. Only half of this was mediated by educational attainment. Thus the traits that are related to this polygenic score affect life outcomes not only by raising educational credentials. (4) Those with higher polygenic scores tended to come from families with higher socio-economic status, but higher polygenic scores were associated with upward social mobility for those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. (5) Adults with higher polygenic scores were more likely to emigrate or to have worked abroad. These results show compellingly that genetic variants predict many social outcomes, although with very low accuracy. 482 EDITORIAL How do the genes affect these outcomes? Small effect sizes make studies of individual SNPs difficult, but the top SNP in the Rietveld et al. (2013) study turned out to be associated with verbal ability, with each allele contributing about 1.4 points to the verbal IQ (Gunnarsson et al., 2016). Therefore, this particular variant is an “IQ gene” that causes a verbal IQ difference of 2.8 points between the two homozygotes. More recent genome-wide association studies are finding “IQ genes” not by studying education-associated SNPs, but directly by genotyping subjects for whom IQ test scores have been obtained. The most recent study, based on results from 78,308 subjects, reports IQ-associated variants in 18 genomic regions, and an additional 30 genes that came out significant in gene- based analyses (Sniekers et al., 2017). Genetic traits change their frequencies across generations through mutation, selection and random drift. Therefore the question arises of whether the frequencies of those genetic variants that contribute to individual differences in intelligence, personality or education have changed recently in human evolution. The question is, in particular, whether the long-term trend of rising cultural complexity is related not only to sporadic innovations and their cultural transmission, but also to changing frequencies of those genetic variants that make people capable of innovation and cultural transmission. The first approach to this question was based on comparisons of allele frequencies for “educational attainment genes” and “IQ genes” in living human populations. Interested readers should consult the most recent publications by Davide Piffer (2016, 2017a,b,c) for the current status
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