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.

Armeet is upset

Esther the Nigerian PhD is upset

Rightoids are crowing

Feel free to click around in those threads, there's plenty more butthurt going around.

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Proof that mayos are all weak cucks

Most cucks have above average sex drives, though.

You can't cuck a man that satisfies his woman

You can, but either way, that has nothing to do with what I said.

I got a nose for white supremacy and you smell like bleach

Noted.

Like I said. Bleach.

Yes, I have that down.

That could just be jizz

I have not ejaculated in over two months.

is that why you're becoming a white nationalist

Anyone that’s shot melanotin knows this as common knowledge.

now i know why they sell that at 711

Oh ya it’s II

It's back, and this time it's pissed.

one of the scientists, who was conducting experiments on himself with an early tool compound, melanotan II, injected himself with twice the dose he intended and got an eight-hour erection, along with nausea and vomiting

Something about nausea and vomiting but also being uncontrollably erect sounds especially awful

If we could ping clubbinguido he could tell you all about the boners. I don’t think the nausea is that bad

Chad melanin rich vs Virgin melanin

vs the Thad Albino

how can you claim to have a phd and lambaste published research based solely on your retarded geopolitical world view

You seem to have an inflated view of how smart PhD's actually are

yes, i am naive. But im an engineer

Oh no

Oh yes

Really? You are so articulate for an engineer. Even used “an” instead of “are”

i said engineer, not doctor

Based and good at physics-pilled.

Implying engineers are good at physics

Leave that to the physicists, engineers only learn as much as they have to and are more than happy to use a decent approximation

oh please, engineers use applied physics while the entire physics department is busy sucking off Neil degrasee tyson

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?

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.

Are you larping or what, I can’t really fathom someone with an iq over 90 browsing drama daily lol

i just act retarded

In med school they teach you to stop using proper grammar

Apparently they teach you to stop writing legibly too

half the reason us burgers have an opioid problem (forged scripts)

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.

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.

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

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.

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

What's the compressive strength of concrete after I've peed 2 fl oz into a bag of cement and farted on the rebar?

fuck if i know ninja, im aerospace

word, nice to see another one of us. What's your specialty? I'm in flight dynamics

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.

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 😍

can u tell everyone to stop throwing money in the f35 pit and just upgrade the existing f16s? thanks

Bad call. I love the F-16 as much as anyone, but we need something more modern.

nerd, electrical is where it's at

How would we know, I don't think the properties of pisscrete are in any of my tables

Wrong. AASHTO standards say 100:1 water to piss in concrete mixture meets allowable stress requirements.

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?

A gay sex engineer

its called space docking

Lol, I thought was when you pooped a turd into someone elses butthole or vagina?

implying men dont have vaginas

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im an engineer

Then you should damn well know better. You're one of the poor bastards that has to translate theoretical idiocy into a functioning model.

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

> ecology phd

lol diversity hire

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

How fucking old is she?

40 something, idk

Damn, feel pretty bad for her

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.

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

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.

one branch occasionally produces Cardinal Richelieu, the other one is guaranteed to make Manuel de Godoy.

Cardinal Richelieu

you mean tim curry from the three musketeers?

More like Manuel de Good-goy, considering all the Jewish financiers of his wars.

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I'm guessing you get a PhD in Nigeria the same way you become a prince.

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.

"I fucking love science", oh wait, this peer-reviewed study disagrees with my political views? I no longer love science.

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.

Rightoids need to learn how to not be illiterate. But then again it's useful to them if most people are

Jared Taylor is a legit academic though.

It’s not like they cited Richard Spencer or some other lolcow

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.

Hard to start up and run your own successful publisher when you still live with mommy and daddy

James Taylor

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.

You some kind of loser who actually reads those tl;drs?

Just the headline is enough for imageboards and rightoid spaces.

“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.”

🐎 👞

Sorry you can’t fuck kids, freakazoid

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.

probably "providing a platform"

Fucking scientists and their research

In fact, a butthurt Twitter academic would love to tell you exactly how many ways this paper is flawed.

Does this guy actually point any flaws or do anything other than get offended at things he doesn't want to be true?

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.

Maybe the author of the study shouldn't have cited a Psychology Now blog post that argued against their argument.

But Sabrina’s blog on the Frankfurt School’s positive impact on deconstructing capitalism is a-ok in the humanities

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(Note my inclusive use of the above hate symbol)

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.

You done snorting fent again, retard?

This couldn't have possibly been peer reviewed..

it was and they can go fuck themselves also

😂😂😂😂

i fucking love science

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.

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.

Around micks, think quick

so race realism is legit but against gingers?

Race realism is legit except when it's against the 13%. You don't see any affirmative action in basketball

I don’t think it has any merit in the context it is usually argued in.

Because it's a cope, like many other things -- trying to pretend that concepts which apply in essentially all vertebrates have somehow exempted humans.

I onced smoked the melatonin, can confirm - 10/10 apes

how to increase melanin in body? :v

It's autumn so getting sunbath is ruled out

By taking BBC straight in the bussy.

I once smoked the melatonin, can confirm - 4.5/5 Apes

Now I'm just curious as to whether or not there's enough albinos to conduct a test on this.

> 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

the hate on evopsych is an SJW meme, one of their few successful ones. there is no rational basis for it.

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The fuck is this?

pretty sure he's memeing

Dude evopsych lmao

Probably one of the most retarded "disciplines" since it's purely people using dodgy research to "prove" their political views

Pretty much all of psychology is irreproducible trash

that's an SJW meme.

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.

What a massive fucking cope lmao

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:

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.

Nick Land cameo appearance. I wonder if he's invented a robot to dose him with amphetamines yet.

probably just pays a kid in Shanghai to do it for him

Who do you think you are, me?

Also

it's written by someone named donald

My sides

it's peer reviewed

Oh my fucking god amazing

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