Steve Sailer: iSteve

When reading Stephen Colbert's very funny book I Am America (And So Can You !) , I kept getting the impression that at least one of Colb...

In contrast to the five poor daughters theme of Pride and Prejudice and Fiddler on the Roof , there's the five rich sons theme of the r...

Here's the opening of an interesting new paper that will be presented at this year's Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting a...

As I wrote in my early 2003 American Conservative article on why Iraqi social structures were likely to undermine America's goal of nat...

Hibernia Girl graphs the relationship between corruption and rates of "consanguinity." My published articles are archived at iStev...

From the Times of London : A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments...

It's long been understood theoretically that there must exist a Darwinian fitness trade-off between too much inbreeding and too much out...

A Lieutenant Colonel writes from Iraq : I just read your 2003 article, " Cousin Marriage Conundrum ." You're right on t...

A reader writes: I think that your paper misses one of the prime motivators for first cousin marriage (at least among the community in ...

Steven Pinker's " Inherit the Wind: Our Weird Obsession with Genealogy " is the cover story in\ the August 6, 2007 issue of ...

Chris Caldwell has a good article in the NY Times Magazine, " Where Every Generation Is First-Generation ," on how Turks in Germ...