{"id":100552,"date":"2017-09-20T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=189437"},"modified":"2017-09-20T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T07:14:44","slug":"books-you-look-at-but-dont-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/20\/books-you-look-at-but-dont-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Books you look at but don\u2019t buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A little while ago I was curious about the books people looked at through my links which they nevertheless did not buy.<\/b> More precisely I was looking at a 90 day interval. The top book people clicked but did not buy was Introduction to Quantitative Genetics<\/a>. I know this is an expensive book, but if you can afford it you should buy and it read it.<\/b> The reasoning is that quantitative genetics is no longer an abstruse topic, as I’m seeing economists conflate correlation of traits between relatives and narrow sense heritability. People have opinions on this topic. Loads.<\/p>\n

If you talk about regression to the mean, but barely understand how it works, perhaps you should read Introduction to Quantitative Genetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here the remaining of the top 15 (in order from most clicked to least):<\/p>\n

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey<\/a>
\nThe Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible<\/a>
\nDefenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate<\/a>. This is a good book. I’ve read it three times.
\nThe History and Geography of Human Genes<\/a>
\nGeorge R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set<\/a>
\nPrinciples of Population Genetics<\/a>. Really readers? This is why more of you are not HWE aware….
\nAdaptation and Natural Selection<\/a>
\nThe Nurture Assumption<\/a>
\n1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/a>
\nIn Gods We Trust<\/a>
\nSewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, I can go back to 2014. Looking over 90 days from 2014, 2015 and 2016, here are the top 15:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2014<\/b><\/td>\n2015<\/b><\/td>\n2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Principles of Population Genetics<\/a><\/td>\nFreedom at Midnight<\/a><\/td>\nThe Great Ordeal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In Gods We Trust<\/a><\/td>\nPower and Plenty<\/a><\/td>\nSex Segregation in Sports<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Bible with Sources Revealed<\/a><\/td>\nWhy Sex Matters<\/a><\/td>\nThe Dialectical Imagination<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Why Sex Matters<\/a><\/td>\nThe Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics<\/a><\/td>\nThe History and Geography of Human Genes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Transparent Society<\/a><\/td>\nThe Mating Mind<\/a><\/td>\nPython for Data Analysis<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The First Man in Rome<\/a><\/td>\nMutants<\/a><\/td>\nPlagues and Peoples<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Barbarian Conversion<\/a><\/td>\nIn Gods We Trust<\/a><\/td>\nGrooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nature’s God<\/a><\/td>\n1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/a><\/td>\n1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Introduction to Quantitative Genetics<\/a><\/td>\nA History of the Byzantine State and Society<\/a><\/td>\nWhy Sex Matters<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Rise of Western Christendom<\/a><\/td>\nPrinciples of Population Genetics<\/a><\/td>\nTaboo<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Great Arab Conquests<\/a><\/td>\nThe Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey<\/a><\/td>\nDesign Patterns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Religion Explained<\/a><\/td>\nA Concise Economic History of the World<\/a><\/td>\nA Beautiful Math\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Nurture Assumption<\/a><\/td>\nThe Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories<\/a><\/td>\nThe Great Human Diasporas<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/a><\/td>\nThe Genetics of Human Populations<\/a><\/td>\nThe Seven Daughters of Eve<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Invisible Gorilla<\/a><\/td>\nA Beautiful Math\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nCalculus Made Easy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Why Sex Matters<\/a> has always been a book that gets a lot of clicks. I think it is the title. But it’s rather old now, and on an old fashioned\u00a0topic: sex differences. Totally milquetoast in the 2000s, but probably very problematic today….<\/p>\n

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