Emil O W Kirkegaard

Sure. I did not say "almost anything." I said "socially valued traits**." Group diffs in sickle cell? Some hormone? Hypertension? Proneness to cancer? Heart disease? Def do not include any of that. **In the psych sense.

Moratorium≠ban. Also, study group diffs galore. In other species to show you know what you are doing. If you can't show you know what you are doing with other species, there is no reason for any of us to have any confidence you know what you are doing w/humans.

I am skeptical of this. Other species are not cultural species to the extreme degree humans are. So group heritabilities are less direct in humans, and results from animal studies can not be assumed necessarily valid in humans also.

Right, my point was not generalizability, it was tractability and soundness of the methods. If we can't do it when things are simpler, I'd be very dubious about adding complexity.

It doesn't really seem to me that such studies would help at all really. We already know that behavior differences between animal species / breeds are genetic. Perhaps you could help with an example of a hypothetical study?

Then create strains of mice w/greater v. lesser intelligence. Heavily manip the environ to see how much one can undermine iq of smart mice, increase it among dumb mice.