Peter Frost’s Newsletter

Is individualism less toxic for northwest Europeans?

Some thoughts on falling fertility rates

Aug 21 • 

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Reply to Joseph Henrich

When did northwest Europeans become WEIRD?

Aug 14 • 

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When did northwest Europeans become WEIRD?

Not when they became Christian

Aug 5 • 

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June 2025

Malcolm Gladwell and the birth of a "fact"

Are biracial children with White mothers smarter than those with Black mothers?

Jun 19 • 

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A mother/fetus mismatch?

When the womb and the fetus have different plans ...

Jun 5 • 

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April 2025

Was Franz Boas a race realist?

A revisionist look

Apr 23 • 

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Reply to Philippe Lemoine

Are we condemned to believe in the magic of "culture" and "assimilation"?

Apr 15 • 

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Why bloodlust used to be normal

... and how it became abnormal.

Apr 9 • 

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Emotional responses to the differing skin tones of men and women

Skin color was gendered before it was racialized

Apr 3 • 

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March 2025

Cognitive evolution in eastern Eurasia

A steady rise and then stagnation

Mar 25 • 

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Adieu Bernard (1936-2025)

Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, 2014, Livre 1.

Mar 12 • 

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February 2025

Adapting to an environment of their making

The last 30,000 years of cognitive evolution in Europe

Feb 25 • 

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