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11 months

Razib Kahn posts about on the new genetically-informed version of European prehistory - which, oddly enough, looks a lot like the version current around 1930.

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Facing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023 Today, over three billion humans distributed across every continent claim Indo-European languages as their mother tongue. This status is the outcome of myriad documented

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@JohnHMcWhorter @Biorealism There is a problem with the press systematically purveying a false picture of race and race relations. Systematically hiding massive data that does not fit their thesis, magnifying uncommon incidents into trends, etc. None more at fault in this than the NYTimes.

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Beto O'Rourke, running for Governor of Texas, has been hospitalized with a 'bacterial infection'. Normally, they'd announce what it was. There's nothing embarrassing about bacterial pneumonia or whooping cough. This infection, however, must be in some way embarrassing.

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@clairlemon There are society-level factors influencing this and also individual-level factors. A guy in the middle of the Depression wasn't crazy for saying it was damn hard to get a job.

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Postwar archaeologists and prehistorians made up a prehistory they felt more comfortable with, one without Völkerwanderungs. False. This happens routinely in the social sciences.

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@polanskydj The Nazis multiplied the Dresden casualties tenfold, for propaganda purposes, and the Communists picked that up and continued it.

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Back in February, Biden's people said he would not take a cognitive test in his annual physical. This implies, with very high probability, that he had already taken one ( from someone other than the White House MD) and done poorly.

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#MyWhitePrivilege My Dad got 35 exciting flights over Germany in 1944 without paying a dime !

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@cremieuxrecueil @Inductivist It might be interesting to see a list of social science claims that are substantially accurate.

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There's a paper out about a "previously unsuspected extended period of genetic adaptation lasting ~30,000 y, potentially in Arabia or surrounding regions,prior to a rapid dispersal across the rest of Eurasia as far as Australia." I think it was previously suspected.

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As Sakharov puts it, Oppenheimer was trying to apply the brakes to the American hydrogen bomb program in the expectation that the USSR would then refrain from developing thermonuclear superweapons of its own. Which means that Oppenheimer was a fool, like many of his colleagues.

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@nntaleb @Steve_Sailer You can't select for a complex behavior like herding and protecting sheep. Border collies don't exist either.

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@nntaleb @Steve_Sailer That's why you can't select for stuff like running speed. Thoroughbreds don't exist.

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Scott Alexander said "You Don't Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders" In fact, that is exactly what you should want.

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I see that wiki leans towards syphilis being native to Europe. That is silly. Syphilis spreads like wildfire: it reached Japan by 1520. Coming from America could explain why it never spread over the Old World before 1494.

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It may not be impossible to make useful estimates of the IQ of past famous people such as Presidents, but the discussions of such I see on Twitter are almost magically stupid. I mean, Jesus, JFK at 150??

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@Steve_Sailer Nope.

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@Steve_Sailer @sharghzadeh Half Lithuanian, half Lipka Tatar. Synthetic Mexican.

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@INotsayin @RilsRislan @mtracey @getongab Since, as far as I know, everything put out by Wikileaks has been accurate, nobody could mistake it for journalism.

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Was thinking about the variability of military merit and medals, and checked up on Lyndon Johnson's Silver Star. He won it for being a _passenger_ on a plane that the Japanese shot at.

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Some asshole uttered a claim that the largest ancestry fraction in the US is from Germany. That is a recurring false claim - anyone want to point out what mysterious thing happened in 1990 to generate it?

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@kirstinetaylor @dpinsen There's good news tonight !

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The linguists managed to - mostly - think straight about this. What's their secret?

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Numbers. over, and over I hear some numerically impossible claim that many or most people calmly accept. "90,000 women die of anorexia each year !" me " nope." "1 million US children are kidnaped each year !" Me: " nope."

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Doubling Down

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@Steve_Sailer @espiers @Spottedcanine I once heard a Silicon Valley investor say that he had looked hard at around 400 successful startups: of those two or three had been founded by married couples, none by single women. Which made him wonder about Theranos ( before the shit hit the fan).

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@AndrewYang It does not. The Depression happened, mass idiocy did not follow

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@TheBabylonBee @Inductivist "Overall, there is a substantial sex difference in general knowledge, with men (M=69.75) scoring higher than women (M=59.26). Using Cohen's measure of effect size, the overall difference in general knowledge scores between men and women is approximately half a standard deviation"

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@Steve_Sailer I wouldn't be too sure of that. What if the main force driving people away is the high prevalence of crimes less serious than murder? Murder is important and well-counted, but other crimes are enormously more common.

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@kitten_beloved Don't waste time on new nonsense: stick to classic nonsense: ectomorphs, mesomorphs, and endomorphs.

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@leftyprincesss @KirkegaardEmil @Steve_Sailer China had high IQ scores before they were at all rich: once they abandoned Communism, they started growing rapidly. it is as if they were quite capable of success once they stopped hitting themselves in the head with the hammer and sickle.

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@JohnHMcWhorter @Biorealism No, it does not have a major cop problem.

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@EstOdek According to the CDC, blacks rates of various STDs are substantially higher in the US. 7 times higher for chlamydia, 15 times higher for gonorrhea, 6 times higher for syphilis, about 8 for HIV. Probably there is a reason.

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" it is under no evolutionary pressure to evolve." Nonsense. You would have to be an idiot to think that. Not such a rare position, though: most biologists have no real understanding of natural selection. Or math. or history.. or..

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Plagiarize! The current kerfluffle about plagiarism is an indirect way of pointing out that a lot of DEI types are fraudulent dummies. I would prefer pointing out that their 'research' is wrong and stupid, but the current academic position is "what is Truth?" .

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@sbkaufman People with schizophrenia are considerably more likely than average to commit violent offenses. The rate among patients with schizophrenia and related disease was 6.6 times higher than matched individuals in the general population.

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@USCatholic @TiaPhD But he wasn't. So that's a lie. And lying, she knew, was a sin.

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What is to be done?

What is to be done?

We need enough lockdown and social distancing to drive the R0 below 1.0 – that doesn’t require much more effort than the intensity required to ‘flatten the curve’ and it ha…

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Primitive tribesmen complain about technologically superior invaders

There is a new article in the New York Times Magazine (Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?) , in which some pinhead repeats complaints about David Reich crus…

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@dmalcolmcarson @razibkhan @tracewoodgrains You should have been fired.

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@CommsDirector There are plenty of Afghan immigrants in Europe, and they're expensive trouble, rivaled only by Somalis.

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Most scientists consider Oppenheimer the hero of this story and Teller the villain. if Oppenheimer's views had prevailed, rather than Teller's, the United States would have been well and truly fucked.

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@Steve_Sailer Ridiculous. Did someone hit you on the head?

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Take my wife, please !

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I looked to see how many generals the US lost over four years in WWII, in circumstances comparable to those in which Russia has lost 4 generals in the Ukraine. In front line combat: not counting accidents, friendly fire, plane crashes, Japanese prisoner camps. 7, by my count.

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@nntaleb @Steve_Sailer No one could select for a breed of dog that was strong, intelligent, protective, trainable and obedient. Such a dog is unpossible!

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Not the Flu

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My own favorite scenario is that moderns and neanderthals mixed in the Middle East around 100 kya, then got stuck somewhere in a refugium for 50kya as the earth was cold, perhaps on the Arabian peninsula, then they expanded out during a warming period around 50kya. Just a theory

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I want audiobooks dictated by an auctioneer.

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Caste was, probably, a mistake. "there are more loss of function variants (pLoFs) in South Asians than in Europeans"

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@boriquagato @LucreSnooker @BSCapital2 Even the New York Times has admitted that epidemiologists went nuts in recent decades, opposing travel controls and masks - for no reason, other than a vague feeling that they weren't PC. Of course, they were right: nothing that works is PC.

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@RichardHanania @clakklaa I'm thinking of a couple of women I know whose parents split up.. Somehow that meant that their father never talked to them for years. it hurt. it is possible to see that pain alone maybe doesn't do lasting damage to your capabilities... but, pain is pain.

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They say 'bacterial' to rule out monkeypox, but which bacterium? It could be something subject to misunderstanding by the hoi polloi: chlamydia pneumoniae can cause pneumonia, but is not a venereal disease. It just sounds like one.

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@NoamJStein The whole idea was ridiculous. Not seen as ridiculous by sociologists, because they're crazy. The past is full of trauma: did everything that ever happened damage unborn babies for miles around? Did evolution maximize fetal vulnerability?

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Jennifer Raff, 2018, in the Giardian: "The notion that the ancestors of Native Americans were not the first or only people on the continent has great popularity among white nationalists, who see it as a means of denying Native Americans an ancestral claim on their land."

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@sbkaufman Schizophrenics account for 0.5 -1.0 % of the population, and something like 10% of murders.

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Kim Philby was a traitor and a Soviet agent, while his father had converted to Islam. Hard to see much of an ideological conection - but I think a connection existed.

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Footprints in the Sands of Time

The fossil footprints around an ancient lake in White Sands have been known for some time, but now we have what look to be perfectly respectable C-14 dates. They’re about 22 thousand years ol…

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Live Not By Lies

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@MathiFryy @razibkhan Anyone that's not insane is in a better position.

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@Steve_Sailer There are indeed other factors in success, but the biggest thing limiting the dominance of people with IQs > 160 is that there are very few of them. This is apparently impossible for most people to understand.

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@jollier_raptor Career State Department guys ( and other high-ups) have thought that support for Israel was often against United States Interests for a long, long time. George C.Marshall threatened to resign over Truman's recognition of Israel.

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@kitten_beloved @gigafelon Mostly, the US has a lower percentage of high scorers because we have a different ethnic mix than Finland or Japan. Diversity is our weakness.

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Heritable differences in dog behavior

It turns out that breed differences in behavior are highly heritable, which is interesting since it’s impossible to define between-population heritability ( it is so written) . But althoug…

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@mattyglesias There was a dramatic jump in murders in early 2020, entirely because your ideological allies pushed a false national narrative of police oppression.

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@Steve_Sailer I heard of a guy who was hospitalized for stomach pain: they found ~1,000 Barbie-doll heads in his stomach. Possible member of the overlap audience.

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@terminalyonline @razibkhan Standardized test were, and are, good at finding the bright kids, whether they come from money or not. Getting rid of them eases the way for people with pull, which is why getting rid of them is happening.

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@amy_harmon @PKoellinger @thessgac @DPosthu Because I don't think it's true. We've tried plenty: doesn't work. People have said very similar things about the social-experience drivers of within-population differences in IQ: behavioral genetics certainly indicates those ideas were completely incorrect.

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@RealYeyoZa It's not easy to find a past civilization that is crazy as our leading edges currently are.

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I talk with Jim Miller about coronavirus:

Coronavirus with Cochran

I'm a professor of economics at Smith College and the author of Singularity Rising and Game Theory at Work.

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@beer_bro_ @MattWalshBlog Untrue. Did the Amerindians have trig? no. Axiomatic geometry? no. method of exhaustion? No. Number theory? No. Quadratic formula? no. Did they know the size of the Earth? Did they even know its a sphere? no.

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@apdemetriou @ROBERTO_COLOM IQs were pretty high in China & Japan before they escaped, or began to escape, poverty. They stay low in places like Saudi even after they strike it rich. None of this is a secret. In absolute terms, _everybody_ was poor in 1700 or 1800, but some societies could do science.

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Gay genes

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@dialectical_p I remember having to explain what a galaxy was to a liberal arts co-ed.

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Local brain drain

Abdel Abdellaoui and colleagues recent put out a paper on genetics and social stratification in Great Britain. Among other things, they found that polygenic scores of educational attainment were lo…

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@amy_harmon @PKoellinger @thessgac @DPosthu Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Got it? In 2010 we didn't have direct genetic evidence of alleles influencing individual differences in intelligence. That doesn't mean they weren't there: now we've found many.

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@Danisaplante @Uber_Kryptonian It is not the case that plenty of non-white people played roles in design, engineering, management, at the Manhattan project. Construction, sure.

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@nytimes The election situation has developed not necessarily to your advantage.

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@UnknowsailorOne @KirkegaardEmil It's hard to pretend to be smarter than your are on a standardized test - but maybe they tried Kaplan !

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@maryscriver @phl43 @hbdchick which is why crime is high in West Virginia, except that it isn't.

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@mexitribesman @polygenicity @nathancofnas @itsbirdemic There's a certain logic in denying everything from behavioral genetics to psychometrics. Reality is a seamless web: if even one hatefact exists, all facts are hatefacts.

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Thinking about various good books that I would like to read, if only someone had bothered to write them. For example, the book that intelligently compares and contrasts the origins and course of civilization in the Old and New Worlds.

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@RichardHanania Fortunately, nobody has to pay state or local taxes in the US. Because if they did, the total take of government (lcoal + state + federal) would be more like 36%.

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@RCownie @ArchieN1966 @RhiannonDauster @EPoe187 I could produce a population with an IQ of 115 in one generation just by dropping high-IQ kids on an island. What you consider difficult or impossible is utterly trivial.

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@eigenrobot Trump is busy in court and doesn't have much campaign money: Biden doesn't have the energy and his people don't want him talking unscripted. Nothing that mysterious about it.

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Biden could, I think, materially improve his chances of re-election by choosing a new running mate. One so competent and charming that instead of worrying about Biden dropping dead during a second term..

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@razibkhan In the same way, it is inappropriate to talk about copper or iron as elements in those times, since the ancients only believed in four elements - earth, air, fire, and water.

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@sgcarney @JayMan471 Selective breeding could lead to a population better at separating emotion from fact.

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How many std to the left of the median voter is sufficient to make someone safe from cancel culture?

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@AzorInfo @JayMan471 @TeaGeeGeePea @turrible_tao @olivertraldi @hbdchick @aaronsibarium If you looked at the highest levels of achievement, the geographical differences are even more striking. it is possible to find individual Europeans that have achieved more along those lines than the populations of whole civilizations over centuries.

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Who We Are: #9 Europe

To a good approximation, Europeans are descended from three populations: mesolithic hunter-gatherers, Anatolian farmers ( EEF) and Yamnaya pastoralists. When this story begins, about ten thousand y…

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@mattyglesias You've said this before, and it was nonsense then, too. Hack.

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Turkheimer speaks!

Time to respond to Eric Turkheimer’s post. In my review of Carl Zimmer’s book, I said that the existing fixation index values between continental races are compatible with very signifi…

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@sbkaufman Psychiatrists often say that most murders are not committed by schizophrenics, and most schizophrenics are not murderers. True, but this is intended to imply that schizophrenics do not have much higher murder rates than average. They do.

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@dsonoiki @germanrlopez Don't forget being wrong.

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@skepticgoat @ScottMc20530614 @AlecMacGillis @esaagar Crime and violence were high among blacks in 1900: not much of a drug culture black then. Besides, ' drug culture' is something you do, not an environment factor like rain: plenty of places had weed and opiates available for thousands of years but seldom abused them.

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Just another flu in Bergamo

Here’s an interesting article from Bergamo – Google translates it well enough. It gives many examples of how the death rate is much higher than the official estimates of the Italian g…

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@sciencefandom @JayMan471 @Shaggyda4 @joelwatsonfish We know a lot about divergent evolution in humans: it is perfectly capable of happening in a _mere_ 50,000 years, or for that matter over time periods far shorter than that. Are Eskimos really just like Tibetans? No. Are East Asians really just like Europeans? Again, no.

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Rapid Change in Polygenic Traits

A few people have occasionally claimed that natural selection takes a long time to change any trait that might bother them – sometimes, they say this of polygenic traits, ones influenced by m…

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@razibkhan If this assertion were true - which it isn't - there would be examples of it happening here and there, now and then. Embracing a theory that is falsified by everything that ever happened is a sign that in some way your mind ain't right.

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