This is the website for Harpending's course on Social Consequences of Biological Diversity. Click for the syllabus.
The first reading, a forthcoming essay by Jonathan Marks, is here. The first homework assignment is here.
This applet illustrates the Central Limit Theorem and is well worth 15 or 20 minutes of play.
Some of you in class found my remarks about political correctness to be unfounded because you were not familiar with it. For fun here is a horror story about freshman orientation at Yale. The bizarre article from TIME about racial profiling in medicine is here.
A pdf of the lecture's keynote slides is here.
The second homework assignment, due in two weeks, is here.
The third homework assignment, due in two weeks, is here.
The readings for this week are the Draper and Harpending father absence paper and the Rushton-Jensen review.
The fourth homework assignment is here. Readings are given in the homework.
Read the Greg Clark essay Genetically Capitalist here. The homework is here.