The Frozen Gene: The End of Human Evolution by Vox Day

Review by Perrin Lovett

While the term is usually associated with having a high IQ, with perhaps little popular thought given to substantial achievement, a genius is a person who innovatively solves novel problems for the betterment of society. See chapter seven, “Identifying the Genius,” Charlton, Bruce, and Dutton, Edward, The Genius Famine, London: University of Buckingham Press, 2016. Vox Day is a genius. There, now it’s in print—all protestations, Day’s included, notwithstanding. 

Day’s ability to identify and solve problems, especially those overlooked by experts for generations, is on full display in The Frozen Gene. In his new book, Day builds on the mathematical attainment of Probability Zero and breaks new ground. Part of his latest success is the refutation of Motoo Kimura’s neutral theory of molecular evolution. But there is much more, some of it possibly holding profound consequences for mankind. Here follows a cursory look at a few facets from Day’s second major work in demolishing the dogma and quasi-theology of evolution and human genetics.

(The Frozen Gene, Castalia House, 2026.*)

Day, Vox, The Frozen Gene: The End of Human Evolution, Switzerland: Castalia House, 2026 (Kindle edition). 

Vox Day is one of the few defenders of Western Civilization who, while others whined and complained, did something to preserve our heritage. Rather, he’s done many things, including writing and editing a slew of books (SJWs Always Lie, Corporate Cancer, A Throne of Bones, Probability Zero, etc.). Your reviewer has read Day with great appreciation since 2001, and his earliest days as a columnist at World Net Daily. He assembled the comprehensive taxonomy of the socio-sexual hierarchy (alpha, sigma, gamma, et al). He is the author of MITTENS, the Mathematical Impossibility of The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, an empirical demolition of Darwin’s theory of evolution and a core concept in Probability Zero and The Frozen Gene. A Top 40 recording artist, he slings some mean beats and lyrics. The Frozen Gene is available from Amazon. 

Like Probability Zero, The Frozen Gene is partly written in the language of mathematics. However, as I told someone, somewhere, the written explanations accompanying the many formulas make for easy reading, even for those not possessed of a “math” brain. An open mind will go far in understanding what might otherwise be intimidating. As for help understanding or reacquainting with various mathematical symbols, please start here. The Frozen Gene is in part an explication of a series of scientific papers published on Zenodo by Day and his valiant assistant, the esteemed Claude Athos. An illustrative preview paper, Generational Extension and the Selective Turnover Coefficient Across Historical Epochs (Day and Athos, 2025), is found here. And by explication, I mean the kind of linguistic elucidation that not only reinforces and clarifies, but also adds a degree of relatability. And even fun. Accordingly, such calculus as “d = T × [∫μ(x) × l(x) × v(x)dx/∫l(x) × v(x)dx]” appears alongside analogies to crowded bar rooms, full parking lots, an Italian tale genetically reminiscent of Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, and the science fiction classic Blade Runner. Day even separates the relative importance of the latter fiction by book and movie. A kind genius.

The Frozen Gene kicks off with a Foreword by Steve Keen, one of the foremost economists of our time, perhaps of all time, and a man familiar with mathematics and the correction of misrepresentations. On page 11, he writes:

If the human genome is indeed frozen, as this book asserts, then this is not merely a scholastic debate, but one with profound consequences for the future of the human race, and of the knowledge we have accumulated in the last quarter millennium. To survive the other threats that humanity faces, from global warming to nuclear annihilation, and yet succumb to evolutionary extinction, would be the worst of Pyrrhic victories.

His acknowledgement and supposition look towards the surprising findings of the book and, in particular, the “scarier” questions raised in chapter fourteen. Scary or not, Day’s ultimate conclusion is straightforward: “We are now living in a frozen gene pool.” Page 16. 

The sample formula, above, is for “d,” the Selective Turnover Coefficient, the rate at which gene pools turn over based on various components, as explained in chapter four. The rate depends on a number of factors, some of them morbid, like infant deaths, that modern life has largely cured. The curing, in and of itself, is a good thing for humanity. But it has radically slowed the rate of genetic transition. Our Neolithic ancestors had a d value of approximately .53. The rate has slowed over time (Medieval d = .44), especially since the industrial revolution; the current estimated d = .015. This 35-fold reduction in turnover speed means that the current rate is too slow for any positive mutation to occur: “Six hundred and thirty thousand years. For a single beneficial mutation to spread through the modern human population.” Page 159. What does that mean for standard Darwinian evolution? “[T]he evolutionary consequence is that natural selection has been deprived of its raw material.” Page 161. 

The consequences for mankind of this freezing are startling. “Beneficial mutations cannot spread because there is no selective mortality to favor their carriers. But for the same reason, deleterious mutations cannot be purged.” Id. 

Day goes on to dismiss concepts like genetic drift, neutral theory, and parallel fixation. In doing so, he shows the “spectacular” failure of Kimura’s theory. He also points out additional Darwinian ridiculousness. For example, if biological imaginings were real, then we should witness the birth of a new, different species every eleven days. Page 286. That, as one might guess, even without a formula, is impossible. 

In chapter thirteen, Day goes deeper into the ramifications of “d” as applied to human society. What is theoretically supposed to represent complete generational genetic turnover is confounded by the fact that human generations overlap, sometimes by factors of four (i.e., four generations in a family alive at the same time). It was also in chapter thirteen that Day relayed a humorous (or sad) tale of ironic rejection. Day and his AI wingman, Claude Athos, submitted several of the aforementioned papers to various scientific journals. One of the rejection letters chastised Day for not respecting the vaunted credentials of other scientists, many of them surely sinecure automatons, while simultaneously rejecting poor Claude for being an automaton. In other contexts, one assumes these gatekeepers are the same sort who laud technological developments like AI, but who evidently do not like their positive real-world usage. But who, really, knows about such people?

That anecdote leads to chapter fourteen and some remarkable speculation about where humans are heading in the future. Stuck without new positive development, but also unable to purge detrimental traits, “[t]he frozen gene pool is not merely frozen. It may be failing.” Page 379. If so, then we may be entering into, or we may already be centuries into, a period of genetic degradation. High-minded (and illogical) biologists and their globalist allies promised us a shiny future with man as a kind of god. We may, in fact, be destined for something that looks more like the movie Idiocracy. “The failing gene hypothesis is not reassuring.” Page 388 (the “actuary in Davos” story). But it is just that, a hypothesis, speculation, not an iron law of destiny. 

All of Day’s findings and conjectures will give the thinking some things to consider. They will give the innumerate more to fret over. As for the implications of gene failure, your reviewer has, of course, little in the way of concrete solutions. Pick one’s recourse, if one will: the apophatic faith all is in God’s hands, the dialectic equivalent, or a combined mixture. In any event, and by any approach, it is better to know where we stand at present. Thanks to Day’s calculations, we do. Genius begets a little comfort. 

As with Probability Zero, your reviewer highly recommends The Frozen Gene. Rarely will one come across a duo of texts that correct such a terrible deception. Day’s work, while it is mathematical in nature, should be of the utmost interest to Christians and other believers seeking to refute the anti-God and anti-man propositions of (post)modernity. As Day states, on page 437: “For more than a century, the theory of evolution by natural selection has been wielded as a weapon against religious belief, against the idea that humans are special, against any notion that our existence has meaning or purpose beyond the blind churning of differential reproduction.” Day has given us copious ammunition with which to return fire. 

Accordingly, and as a side note, I suggest an inspection of sorts for those whose Russian skills exceed my “street signs and menus” level. How might Day’s books bolster the existing Christian efforts to counter Darwinism? Specifically, how could a proper mathematical refutation build upon the work of, say, Bufeev, Fr. Constantine, The Orthodox Doctrine of Creation and Theory of Evolution, Moscow: Russian Education Center of Saint Basil the Great, 2014 (English translation slowly forthcoming)? If our genes are frozen, then our options are not.

*Many thanks to Vox Day for writing The Frozen Gene and for graciously allowing me to use the foregoing quotes and cover image.