Increased melanin/darker coloration makes animals more aggressive, sexually active, and fatter. At the suggestion that this might apply to humans, Twitter cries out in a collective REEEEEEEEE and demands science daddy SHUT. IT. DOWN.
1 2019-11-13 by Funkyduffy
Previous scientific research has shown that in over 40 species of vertebrates, increased melanin results in higher levels of aggression, higher levels of sexual activity, larger body mass, more resistance to stress, and greater physical activity when grooming.
[Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008]](https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.tree.2008.06.001)
In this paper, the authors indicate that the effect probably doesn't apply to humans because our differences in pigmentation are due to mutations in a different set of genes:
In this respect, it is important to note that variation in melanin-based coloration between human populations is primarily due to mutations at, for example, MC1R, TYR, MATP and SLC24A5 [29,30] and that human populations are therefore not expected to consistently exhibit the associations between melanin based coloration and the physiological and behavioural traits reported in our study.
Well, someone applied it to humans anyways.
"Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?" Elsevier Personality and Individual Differences, 2012
This one makes a lot of interesting decisions, including using STD rates to measure sexual activity, and citing white nationalist Jared Taylor of American Renaissance. It's not a great paper. In fact, a butthurt Twitter academic would love to tell you exactly how many ways this paper is flawed.
Well, once the rest of Twitter finds out, it's a REEEfest.
Esther the Nigerian PhD is upset
Feel free to click around in those threads, there's plenty more butthurt going around.
123 comments
1 SnapshillBot 2019-11-13
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1 5T48J6ff 2019-11-13
Proof that mayos are all weak cucks
1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-11-13
Most cucks have above average sex drives, though.
1 Ohsbar 2019-11-13
You can't cuck a man that satisfies his woman
1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-11-13
You can, but either way, that has nothing to do with what I said.
1 5T48J6ff 2019-11-13
I got a nose for white supremacy and you smell like bleach
1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-11-13
Noted.
1 5T48J6ff 2019-11-13
Like I said. Bleach.
1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-11-13
Yes, I have that down.
1 duckraul2 2019-11-13
That could just be jizz
1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-11-13
I have not ejaculated in over two months.
1 Rentokill_boy 2019-11-13
is that why you're becoming a white nationalist
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-13
Anyone that’s shot melanotin knows this as common knowledge.
1 loli_esports 2019-11-13
now i know why they sell that at 711
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-13
It’s like www.usamelanotan.com
1 Funkyduffy 2019-11-13
this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-13
Oh ya it’s II
1 BernieMadeoffSanders 2019-11-13
It's back, and this time it's pissed.
1 duckraul2 2019-11-13
Something about nausea and vomiting but also being uncontrollably erect sounds especially awful
1 Kat_B0T 2019-11-13
If we could ping clubbinguido he could tell you all about the boners. I don’t think the nausea is that bad
1 Ohsbar 2019-11-13
Chad melanin rich vs Virgin melanin
1 Tzar-Romulus 2019-11-13
vs the Thad Albino
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
how can you claim to have a phd and lambaste published research based solely on your retarded geopolitical world view
1 Ultrashitposter 2019-11-13
You seem to have an inflated view of how smart PhD's actually are
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
yes, i am naive. But im an engineer
1 Ultrashitposter 2019-11-13
Oh no
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
Oh yes
1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-11-13
Really? You are so articulate for an engineer. Even used “an” instead of “are”
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
i said engineer, not doctor
1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-11-13
Based and good at physics-pilled.
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
Leave that to the physicists, engineers only learn as much as they have to and are more than happy to use a decent approximation
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
oh please, engineers use applied physics while the entire physics department is busy sucking off Neil degrasee tyson
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
Hey don't take it as a diss to engineers, I'm an engineering grad student. Applied physics isn't quite the same as the stuff the weirdos in the physics department are doing, and engineers DO use a fair amount of approximation, because what's the point of sperging out over being exact when you can easily get within a few percent error and use a decent safety factor?
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
Funny story, i had to take an astro-physics engineering class to graduate. The final project was to shoot a rocket off Earth, circle Jupiter and launch out to Uranus (huh huh). I got the closest in the class by coming withing 1million miles of uranus. Which is quite a feat considering the distances. Further icing on the cake is i did all my calcs in excel, while the entire class did theirs in MATLAB.
1 Fascisteen 2019-11-13
Are you larping or what, I can’t really fathom someone with an iq over 90 browsing drama daily lol
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
i just act retarded
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-13
In med school they teach you to stop using proper grammar
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
Apparently they teach you to stop writing legibly too
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
half the reason us burgers have an opioid problem (forged scripts)
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
You don't have to forge scripts to get an opioid problem from burger doctors. I don't remember exactly what opioid it was but I was prescribed 40 fucking pills after my wisdom teeth removal. FORTY! I used ONE.
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
How many though? I got all 4 of mine out and i was in intense pain for like three days. Not 40 pills worth, but.... 20? 15? maybe? i dunno.
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
I got all of mine out too. I only used one because they actually made me nauseous as fuck, I was dry heaving. But 15 opioid pills in 3 days sounds fucking crazy
1 AlveolarPressure 2019-11-13
I also got all 4 out (one botched as I found out later) and only took one. The pain sucks but ice and NSAIDs can mostly curb it.
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-13
Well idk we don’t write much anymore. All ok computers. If you have a doctor who is still writing a lot then they are probably old as shit
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-11-13
What's the compressive strength of concrete after I've peed 2 fl oz into a bag of cement and farted on the rebar?
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
fuck if i know ninja, im aerospace
1 MoreSpikes 2019-11-13
word, nice to see another one of us. What's your specialty? I'm in flight dynamics
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
I was a flight test engineer for a while, working with NASA and the FAA. Sweet fucking gig too. Got to rent big planes, fly wherever we wanted across the country, fly into ice storms and drop the plane out of the sky. Pretty boss.
But i got out and now im in the big HVAC world managing projects across the country. Like most Aeros i know, they got out since the industry is so niche at the moment.
1 MoreSpikes 2019-11-13
I mean I'm definitely pigeonholed at the moment, but I'm switching jobs soon so there's some hope out there. Ever flown an F-16? That's my baby 😍
1 UnluckyFarm 2019-11-13
can u tell everyone to stop throwing money in the f35 pit and just upgrade the existing f16s? thanks
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2019-11-13
Bad call. I love the F-16 as much as anyone, but we need something more modern.
1 LedinToke 2019-11-13
nerd, electrical is where it's at
1 Msmit71 2019-11-13
How would we know, I don't think the properties of pisscrete are in any of my tables
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-11-13
Wrong. AASHTO standards say 100:1 water to piss in concrete mixture meets allowable stress requirements.
1 Cdace 2019-11-13
Depends on on your mix design and curing method. Are you following AASHTO specifications for your PCC or are you trying to following Local specifications?
1 charming_tatum 2019-11-13
A gay sex engineer
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
its called space docking
1 charming_tatum 2019-11-13
Lol, I thought was when you pooped a turd into someone elses butthole or vagina?
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
take your transphobia somewhere else
1 jubbergun 2019-11-13
FULLY AUTOMATED HOMOSEXUAL LUXURY SPACE COMMUNISM
1 ShitaviousJackston 2019-11-13
naive stemlord gang gang
1 jubbergun 2019-11-13
Then you should damn well know better. You're one of the poor bastards that has to translate theoretical idiocy into a functioning model.
1 spergling_drama_alt 2019-11-13
In my last job I was working in fintech with 2 phd's. One in stats and other in ecology.
You are unfortunately right :v
1 diggity_md 2019-11-13
> ecology phd
lol diversity hire
1 spergling_drama_alt 2019-11-13
not really. To be fair, she wasn't brightest person at that place, however ctity where that company was located was a little under 90k people. When you are looking for a person who knows something about statistics and can write half decent R and SQL code, you don't don't really have too much to chose
1 Ultrashitposter 2019-11-13
How fucking old is she?
1 spergling_drama_alt 2019-11-13
40 something, idk
1 Ultrashitposter 2019-11-13
Damn, feel pretty bad for her
1 spergling_drama_alt 2019-11-13
yeah, life's tough for some people
I kinda want to criticize her for things she done, but really I kinda can't because I know that her situation was difficult.
1 diggity_md 2019-11-13
Once insular royal court politics disappeared from the earth, we had to find some other way to hang important sounding titles and empty honors on degenerate retards and get them out of the way of productive society.
​
Enter higher academia
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
meh, phd's serve a purpose for many disciplines. Engineering phd programs are basically built to train autists to produce cutting edge research. It works most of the time. Social Science phd programs are built to make clap back twitter posts.
1 diggity_md 2019-11-13
one branch occasionally produces Cardinal Richelieu, the other one is guaranteed to make Manuel de Godoy.
1 Corporal-Hicks 2019-11-13
you mean tim curry from the three musketeers?
1 SemiboloidSlots 2019-11-13
More like Manuel de Good-goy, considering all the Jewish financiers of his wars.
1 [deleted] 2019-11-13
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1 Lysis10 2019-11-13
I'm guessing you get a PhD in Nigeria the same way you become a prince.
1 FearOfBees 2019-11-13
What do you mean all he did was correlate common sense knowledge from one species to another. We knew darker skinned creatures were more violent. All he did was look at darker humans and be like hmmm yeah it seems consistent. This is like, base level science.
1 R483 2019-11-13
"I fucking love science", oh wait, this peer-reviewed study disagrees with my political views? I no longer love science.
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2019-11-13
Rightoids need to learn how to not be illiterate. But then again it's useful to them if most people are
1 rbsh123 2019-11-13
Jared Taylor is a legit academic though.
It’s not like they cited Richard Spencer or some other lolcow
1 TanksAreLit 2019-11-13
Lmao he's a "legit academic" as in he started his own publication, American Renaissance, and mainly releases books through American Renaissance.
He also calls himself a "racialist" and a "race realist". Same thing Richard Spencer calls himself. Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor are pretty similar, except James Taylor hate the Jews.
1 CucksLoveTrump 2019-11-13
Hard to start up and run your own successful publisher when you still live with mommy and daddy
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2019-11-13
He's seen fire and he's seen rain. He's seen stormy days that he thought would never end. He's seen lonely times when he could not find a friend.
1 fuckedupridiculant 2019-11-13
You some kind of loser who actually reads those tl;drs?
Just the headline is enough for imageboards and rightoid spaces.
1 Slump_o 2019-11-13
“haha libs sure hate it when science goes against them”
“oh? this paper is completely retarded? well it’s on one of those whacky science websites so i’m pretty sure it’s true anyway.”
1 OgreTheRainbow_ 2019-11-13
🐎 👞
1 whyguitar 2019-11-13
Sorry you can’t fuck kids, freakazoid
1 itsnotmyfault 2019-11-13
I'm kind of embarrassed that my Twitter feed passed me this same story and I didn't think to bring it here.
Biggest question is why this is apparently Elsevier's fault.
1 Funkyduffy 2019-11-13
probably "providing a platform"
1 tHeSiD 2019-11-13
Fucking scientists and their research
1 pol__invictus__risen 2019-11-13
Does this guy actually point any flaws or do anything other than get offended at things he doesn't want to be true?
1 R483 2019-11-13
That was honestly kind of surreal to read. The guy wrote Lord knows how many words trying to debunk it, but literally not a single one contradicts any of the paper's points, it literally is only him being offended.
1 gandhitheblue 2019-11-13
Maybe the author of the study shouldn't have cited a Psychology Now blog post that argued against their argument.
1 rbsh123 2019-11-13
But Sabrina’s blog on the Frankfurt School’s positive impact on deconstructing capitalism is a-ok in the humanities
👌🏾👌🏿👌🏽
(Note my inclusive use of the above hate symbol)
1 totalrandomperson 2019-11-13
Being retarded is good because people I don't like are retarded
1 Matues49 2019-11-13
You done snorting fent again, retard?
1 Kaiser-romulus 2019-11-13
😂😂😂😂
1 big_papa_stiffy 2019-11-13
i fucking love science
1 Ultrashitposter 2019-11-13
MC1R is one of the genes they actually cover, though, and it's also known to cause redhaired pigmentation in humans. Bit of a flimsy way to cover yourself.
1 TheLordHighExecu 2019-11-13
Around micks, think quick
1 Slump_o 2019-11-13
so race realism is legit but against gingers?
1 throwaway999999812 2019-11-13
Race realism is legit except when it's against the 13%. You don't see any affirmative action in basketball
1 Slump_o 2019-11-13
I don’t think it has any merit in the context it is usually argued in.
1 SemiboloidSlots 2019-11-13
Because it's a cope, like many other things -- trying to pretend that concepts which apply in essentially all vertebrates have somehow exempted humans.
1 QCmee 2019-11-13
I onced smoked the melatonin, can confirm - 10/10 apes
1 spergling_drama_alt 2019-11-13
how to increase melanin in body? :v
It's autumn so getting sunbath is ruled out
1 EyeseeFN 2019-11-13
By taking BBC straight in the bussy.
1 QCmee 2019-11-13
I once smoked the melatonin, can confirm - 4.5/5 Apes
1 Shitposting_Skeleton 2019-11-13
Now I'm just curious as to whether or not there's enough albinos to conduct a test on this.
1 diggity_md 2019-11-13
> flimsy shitty evolutionary psychology study uses p-hacking to prove that ackshually everyone is racist
wow groundbreaking, if u disagree u are nazy
> flimsy shitty evolutionary psychology study uses p-hacking to prove dude nigs lmao
wow everyone who has ever even seen this should be removed from their position and blackballed, free speech has consequences, sweety
1 subaru_97_caracas 2019-11-13
the hate on evopsych is an SJW meme, one of their few successful ones. there is no rational basis for it.
1 BussyShillBot 2019-11-13
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1 tHeSiD 2019-11-13
The fuck is this?
1 Funkyduffy 2019-11-13
pretty sure he's memeing
1 AlveolarPressure 2019-11-13
Dude evopsych lmao
Probably one of the most retarded "disciplines" since it's purely people using dodgy research to "prove" their political views
1 PangolinPoweruser 2019-11-13
Pretty much all of psychology is irreproducible trash
1 subaru_97_caracas 2019-11-13
that's an SJW meme.
1 SemiboloidSlots 2019-11-13
What a massive fucking cope lmao
1 Can_The_SRDine 2019-11-13
So the paper made it very clear that everything everyone is fussy about is a non-issue, but too few people can actually bother to read it. The democratization of education was a mistake.
1 darth_stroyer 2019-11-13
Nick Land cameo appearance. I wonder if he's invented a robot to dose him with amphetamines yet.
1 Funkyduffy 2019-11-13
probably just pays a kid in Shanghai to do it for him
1 FearOfBees 2019-11-13
Who do you think you are, me?
Also
My sides
Oh my fucking god amazing
1 ANTORICO2THELEGEND 2019-11-13
Hoes mad