Archive - Craig Willy’s Evopolitics

Repronews #71: Lifespan: ~50% genetic?

Screening out blindness | IVF for population growth | chemical damage to gene pool | musical enjoyment ~54% heritable | breast cancer risk of different…

Apr 22

Play Tinker Tots

A simple game exploring embryo selection preferences and dilemmas

Apr 21 •

Repronews #70: Ceci n’est pas un dire wolf

Abortion in Germany | GenomeIndia genotypes >10,000 people | U.S. national security biotech report | genetics of pelvis and head size

Apr 14 •

Repronews #69: How safe are ART?

NYT on polygenic screening | S'pore cognitive enhancement | Hanson Plan for fertility | PET on population decline | Green Sahara humans | 23andMe’s…

Apr 7 •

Cave-man brain vs. global economy

How evolution explains the left and right’s disgust for free markets

Apr 4 •

March 2025

Repronews #68: Europe’s evolving fertility policy landscape

IVG startup Ovelle | Guardian on US techno-natalists vs. religious conservatives | Nature on genes & socioeconomic status | US bioeconomy $416 billion…

Mar 31 •

Repronews #67: What is genomic liberty?

Engagement on human editing | genetic enhancement vs. reproductive freedom? | diversity & birth rates in the US | Iranian pronatalism & abortion…

Mar 26 •

Repronews #66: Can facilitating fertility reduce the gender wage gap?

Skepticism on artificial wombs | Japanese perspectives on PGT-M | Biggest countries in 2100 | Dalton Conley on sociogenomics | WaPo on longevity…

Mar 20 •

Government-by-Shitpost

Trump 2.0’s dangerous hyperactivity makes the Constitution more important than ever

Mar 17 •

Repronews #65: UK Biobank study finds over 60 genes involved in brain aging

UK insurer to offer polygenic scores for diseases; IVF success rate for PGT-M; women’s “child penalty” hurts fertility, especially in South Korea; does…

Mar 14 •

Repronews #64: Patient perspectives on embryo screening for polygenic diseases

Indian castes’ endogamy & genetic diseases; say hello to “woolly mice”; Africa CDC calls for “Africa-centric” research ethics; a Confucian approach to…

Mar 8 •

Repronews #63: Should cousin marriage be banned?

LessWrong on “superbabies”; debating pronatalism; conservatives on immigration, families & IVF; atlas of functions of 20,000 human genes

Mar 5 •

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