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In study after study, modern genetics research is murdering blank slatism, and it's quickly becoming a bloodbath.
— i/o (@eyeslasho) October 20, 2024
Marxist biologist Stephen Jay Gould (who is still widely read and taught in academia) once said: "There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000… https://t.co/DhxRwitE3f
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.14.613021v1
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Not comparable but nice try buddy
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The point is that DNA doesn't encode a perfectly detailed map of all neural connections. It has parts at varying degrees of fidelity. The connections future development (mostly though pruning) is strongly influenced by the more detailed parts.
Take a more straightforward trait like time preference. It's not hard to see how tweaking it would affect intelligence, nor hard to see how different environments would select for it more or less.
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