I wonder what could be going on here... #GeneticConfoundinghttps://twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/998324840099696645 …
I was thinking that they were thinking, "a propensity for abortion can't possibly be heritable because it's constantly selected against"
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Which is moot either way
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Well you can say that something doesn't have to be selected for in order to be heritable, but it does bring up the question of why that heritable trait would exist
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Chess skill, basketball ability, hours watching TV, video game playing are all heritable and clearly weren't selected for in the ancestral environment.
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How do you know what the ancestral environment was like?
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TV was invented less than 100 years ago...
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"propensities for abortion" don't exist
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Traits that lead people to be more likely to get abortions do exist.
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possessing a vagina makes you more likely to wear a wedding dress
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