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Why should that be the alternative? (Personally, I've never found this 'Cold winters theory' particularly compelling) But Lysenkoism isn't just about a theory of evolution, it is also political suppression/oppression of alternative theories
Yeah, some call it the BS-EC (brain size-environmental change) hypothesis, and it seems reasonable and parsimonious to me. But I'm certainly open to alternatives. It's a difficult problem to solve.
I haven't read enough into it to have a firm opinion about it. I'm generally less skeptical of genetic claims, but more skeptical of the evolutionary stories presented to purportedly explain it
That's fair. But the best we can do is develop reasonable hypotheses that account for the data while predicting new data. It's a difficult task, but the BS-EC hypothesis seems quite reasonable to me. Some variety of selection for culture also.
All the stuff investigating this in humans makes the same obvious mistakeshttps://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1135629130639257602 …
The researchers who study this realize this, of course, and have dealt with it in a variety of ways. Anyway, I will wait to address this in a longer essay. It's a fascinating topic.
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