According to Nicholas Wade, our genetic predisposition for violence is fading because modern societies are less violent than ancient. #what
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@hbdchick@gregladen So you like this story so much that even without any evidence (as you admit) you equate it to a theory? Remarkable. -
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@JenniferRaff@gregladen and id didn't say there was *no* evidence. i pointed to one possible candidate gene. -
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@hbdchick The problem with MAO-A is that studies have shown that it's not predictive of aggressive/antisocial behavior in adulthood.
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@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff so do you demand all evolutionary speculations come attached with allele id & genomic traces selection ? -
@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff Or do you just demand such standard from certain kinds of speculation ? -
@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff y. have never speculated selection mechanisms from phenotype? You reject pretty much all of Dawkins then? -
@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff most rejection speculations re evolution of racial diff. not principled objections based evidence (1/2) -
@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff (2/2) but mostly epistemological double standard applied only to speculations about race & ethnicity -
@hbdchick Just wait pro forma declarations confounds & complexity social phenon the usual from people w/ no knowledge of social science lit. -
@hbdchick@JayMan471 what's the evidence for mating patents in ME before Arab conquest ? -
@pseudoerasmus@JayMan471 don't actually know (yet!). the only thing i do know is that some anthropologists theorize that the arab mating...
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@hbdchick@gregladen@JenniferRaff but I still think greg's website is interesting !Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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