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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.

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    1. TGGP‏ @TeaGeeGeePea 18 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RCownie @gcochran99 and

      Is there evidence that culture is MORE important than adaptations? A reasonable person might be agnostic between explanations in the absence of evidence, rather than assuming it must be entirely one or the other.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    2. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 18 Oct 2019
      Replying to @TeaGeeGeePea @gcochran99 and

      So Occam's Razor points to culture alone. But I grant that brain adaptation *could* have happened. I just don't see clear evidence of brain differences between populations.

      5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RCownie @TeaGeeGeePea and

      > I just don't see clear evidence of brain differences between populations. So differences in brain volume and neuron count just don't count? Or are those caused by "culture"?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @CovfefeAnon @TeaGeeGeePea and

      Cross off "skull caliper" again on second bingo card.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. TGGP‏ @TeaGeeGeePea 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RCownie @CovfefeAnon and

      Rather than linking to the essay on "bingo" again, I'm going to ask: what is your problem with measurement? Are you pro-ignorance?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @TeaGeeGeePea @CovfefeAnon and

      You're trying to make a triple bank-shot of invalid (or at best very weak) inferences: 1. No-one cares about brain volume in itself 2. You're claiming brain volume is correlated with IQ

      4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RCownie @TeaGeeGeePea and

      There's plenty of evidence re brain volume being causally correlated with IQ. You not knowing it is not a kind of evidence.

      2 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    8. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @RCownie and

      Imagine a pop in which 60% of early deaths ( one that prevent or greatly reduce reproduction) are caused by factors that nobody understands and so can't influence, while in another pop, that number is only 40%.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    9. Gregory Cochran‏ @gcochran99 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @RCownie and

      Do you think that intelligence would benefit fitness equally in both those populations?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 19 Oct 2019
      Replying to @gcochran99 @TeaGeeGeePea and

      *If* "intelligence", whatever that means, helps reproductive fitness and is independent of disease risk, then it's equally useful to the surviving adults in both cases. If "intelligence" - changing genes are associated with disease-related genes.

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      Covfefe Anon‏ @CovfefeAnon 20 Oct 2019
      Replying to @RCownie @gcochran99 and

      Wonderful - you've made a fully generalized counter argument against any animals having a different level of intelligence than humans Does intelligence help lions survive and reproduce? Of course Does it help wolves? Yep Apply the same reasoning you've applied to human groups

      12:52 AM - 20 Oct 2019
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        2. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 20 Oct 2019
          Replying to @CovfefeAnon @gcochran99 and

          No. I think the view of "intelligence" as a one-dimensional trait like weight is nonsensical. And I think that having the cognitive capabilities for language and for learning and conforming to the knowledge and rules of a culture is really important.

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        3. RichC: nowhere else to go, my head is on th ground‏ @RCownie 20 Oct 2019
          Replying to @RCownie @CovfefeAnon and

          But outside and beyond that, it's not clear that it gives a selective advantage (in the subsistence farming/ pastoralist cultures of the vast majority of our ancestors).

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