Why were English racehorse breeders so successful in developing fast Thoroughbreds in the early 18th century? They believed that "heredity was far more important that development or environment". Yikes! Hereditarians!pic.twitter.com/CH60L3E8Q0
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Why were English racehorse breeders so successful in developing fast Thoroughbreds in the early 18th century? They believed that "heredity was far more important that development or environment". Yikes! Hereditarians!pic.twitter.com/CH60L3E8Q0
Hm... Arguably technically wrong (aren't all the key racehorse heritabilities <50%?), highly suspicious 'blood lineages' aside, but also practically correct if it led them to focus on durable gains from selective breeding rather than tweaking training regimes w/minimal effects.
I am dumbfounded that despite millennia of farming (and horseracing) it took until 18th century England for systematic knowledge of breeding to arise
That's how you know it's an important idea: you can no longer imagine what it would be like to not understand it, or how so many intelligent knowledgeable people could have missed it for so many millennia.
An important corollary here is that competition is a metasystemic strategy for really efficiently separating “sounds plausible” and “actually works.”
Yes, that's true, but mere competition is only necessary and not sufficient. Something like a better cow or flying shuttle would have won competitions in many times & places, but they didn't exist to do so. The market may be a weighing machine, but where do the things come from?
Make t-shirts with last sentence?
You're in a better position to make & handout t-shirts than I am. :) Maybe Stripe could have some internal contests for t-shirt designs - I remember being very impressed with what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadless t-shirt contests sometimes turned up.
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