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Recent evolution of hair, eye and skin color in Europe

Jun 6, 2024 | aporiamagazine.com | Peter Frost

Written by Peter Frost. Europeans have a surprising variety of hair and eye colors. Their hair colors are produced by alleles at over 200 loci and their eye colors by alleles at over 124 (Morgan et al., 2018; Simcoe et al., 2021). These alleles went from being nonexistent to their current high prevalence within a relatively short span of time, certainly less than the forty thousand years of Homo sapiens in Europe.
Inconvenient Facts about Slavery

Jun 5, 2024 | aporiamagazine.com | Lipton Matthews

Written by Lipton Matthews. Selling books that preach the brutality of black enslavement is a lucrative venture for those wishing to profit from identity politics. Although such books do topple the image of slave masters as “benevolent”, they exclude an important fact: slave ownership was ubiquitous. Of course, the existence of non-white slave-owners does not absolve the sins of whites. But concealing their story gives an unrealistic image of slave societies.
Racial gaps in the West Indies

May 7, 2024 | aporiamagazine.com | Lipton Matthews

Written by Lipton Matthews. It is an article of faith in left-wing circles that racial inequality is the product of racist structures. Data concerning racial inequality make America the poster child for “systemic racism”. However, claiming that racism is rampant in America because of racial differences in outcomes is mistaken. After all, such differences are present throughout black-majority countries in the West Indies.
How modern culture distorts reality

Mar 26, 2024 | aporiamagazine.com | Peter Frost

Written by Peter Frost. Dutch people underestimate the crime rate of dark-skinned immigrants while overestimating the crime rate of light-skinned immigrants, including Roma, Turks and Chinese. Our perception of crime, and reality itself, is being distorted by the messaging of modern culture. The crime news is unfair to Negroes, on the one hand, in that it emphasizes individual cases instead of statistical proportions ...
The Goldilocks zone between inbreeding and outbreeding

Jan 10, 2024 | aporiamagazine.com | Peter Frost

Written by Peter Frost. The more closely related a man and a woman are to each other, the higher their risk of producing abnormal embryos. The risk is highest if they are siblings, lower if they are first cousins, and lower still if they are second cousins. This is well known. But did you know that the same risk then starts to increase progressively with further decreases in relatedness? The sweet spot for having healthy children seems to be marriage between third or fourth cousins.
The rise and fall of social psychology

Dec 5, 2023 | aporiamagazine.com | Russell Warne

Written by Russell T. Warne. After World War II ended and the full scope of Nazi atrocities became clear, scholars puzzled over their ghastly crimes. That the German people could wage a horrible war and commit genocide was disturbing to many in the West since Germany was not a backward or benighted country; rather, it was one of the most educated countries in the world, and—like other Western nations—it was a Christian nation.
Exactly how much anti-whiteness is there?

Oct 23, 2023 | aporiamagazine.com | John Iceland

Written by Prof Eric Silver and Prof John Iceland. The way we talk about racism has changed. Over the past decade or so, words like “bigot” and “extremist” have been overshadowed by words like “white privilege,” “white supremacy,” and “white fragility.” The new words portray a new kind of racist. Instead of wearing a hood and spewing hate speech, the “new racist” is an ordinary white person whose socialization into “whiteness” causes them to undermine people of color, whether they know it or not.
How To Defeat Woke: Rufo vs Hanania

Oct 20, 2023 | aporiamagazine.com | Sasha Ivanov

Written by Sasha Ivanov. This year saw the publication of two very important books, which are bound to shape intellectual discourse and (hopefully) public policy in coming years. Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke and Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution are the Tech Right’s response to the woke onslaught of the past decade.
Human evolution didn't slow down. It accelerated!

Jun 14, 2023 | aporiamagazine.com | Peter Frost

Written by Peter Frost. The dominant view is that we have evolved by changing our environment rather than ourselves. Genetic evolution has thus given way to cultural evolution. For instance, we adapt to the cold by making clothes or even a controlled environment, like a home with a fireplace. Culture has allowed us to adapt to a diverse range of circumstances, and it has diversified accordingly. Yes, we too have diversified—in shape, color, and size—but those differences are trivial.
Based Feminism | Louise Perry

Apr 29, 2023 | aporiamagazine.com | Louise Perry

Louise Perry is a journalist and author based in London, UK. She is a columnist for UnHerd and a features writer for the Daily Mail. Louise hosts Maiden Mother Matriarch, a podcast about sexual politics, which is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast platforms. It’s also on Substack, where you can take advantage of the Substack Chat feature:Her bestselling debut book is The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century.