Books you look at but don’t buy

Books you look at but don’t buy

A little while ago I was curious about the books people looked at through my links which they nevertheless did not buy. More precisely I was looking at a 90 day interval. The top book people clicked but did not buy was Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. I know this is an expensive book, but if you can afford it you should buy and it read it. 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.

If you talk about regression to the mean, but barely understand how it works, perhaps you should read Introduction to Quantitative Genetics.

Here the remaining of the top 15 (in order from most clicked to least):

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible
Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate. This is a good book. I’ve read it three times.
The History and Geography of Human Genes
George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set
Principles of Population Genetics. Really readers? This is why more of you are not HWE aware….
Adaptation and Natural Selection
The Nurture Assumption
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
In Gods We Trust
Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology

Also, I can go back to 2014. Looking over 90 days from 2014, 2015 and 2016, here are the top 15:

2014 2015 2016
Principles of Population Genetics Freedom at Midnight The Great Ordeal
In Gods We Trust Power and Plenty Sex Segregation in Sports
The Bible with Sources Revealed Why Sex Matters The Dialectical Imagination
Why Sex Matters The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics The History and Geography of Human Genes
The Transparent Society The Mating Mind Python for Data Analysis
The First Man in Rome Mutants Plagues and Peoples
The Barbarian Conversion In Gods We Trust Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Nature’s God 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Introduction to Quantitative Genetics A History of the Byzantine State and Society Why Sex Matters
The Rise of Western Christendom Principles of Population Genetics Taboo
The Great Arab Conquests The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Design Patterns
Religion Explained A Concise Economic History of the World A Beautiful Math 
The Nurture Assumption The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories The Great Human Diasporas
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus The Genetics of Human Populations The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Invisible Gorilla A Beautiful Math   Calculus Made Easy

Why Sex Matters 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 topic: sex differences. Totally milquetoast in the 2000s, but probably very problematic today….

Razib Khan