@david_kenneth_d Anthropologists love the word "clinal"; phenotypes are distributed very, very smoothly, like a chocolate-vanilla swirl
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@david_kenneth_d That is indeed true, within many populations, particularly geographically close & socially equal ones.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@david_kenneth_d But there're sharp, IMPORTANT discontinuities, where selection/drift moulded variation diff. across geographic boundaries.1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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@david_kenneth_d What it comes down to is that fools are stuck debating the problem of Sorites, while practitioners secretly talk amongst..2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@david_kenneth_d Worst thing is that scientists tacitly endorse the misinformation by not speaking out. Politics triumphs over knowledge.2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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@david_kenneth_d@JayMan471@Billare HBD is a product of evolution, mathematically impossible to avoid it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pyconnor@JayMan471@Billare I meant whether HBD can be amiably accepted. I've pretty much accepted it personally @ this point.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@david_kenneth_d@pyconnor@Billare The key problem is that most people aren't us. As@hbdchick notes, "people suck."2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
@JayMan471 @david_kenneth_d heh. did i really say that? i can be so pithy sometimes. (~_^) (but people do s*ck. pres co. excluded, course!)
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