Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 17:48:00 UTC
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I see a lot of selection bias in the comments. No pun intended. ) As far as I kn
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/09/group-selection-bleg.html( I see a lot of selection bias in the comments. No pun intended. )
As far as I know:
1) In the past 30k and certainly in the past 10K years, the driving force in selection has not been mutation, but ‘group domestication’. There are environmental selection pressures ( dairy, wheat, disease resistance) sure. But the primary difference has been, just like domesticated animals, domestication of mankind using the same techniques: maturity.
2) the primary change that has caused the major differences between the groups has been (a) rate of sexual maturity (b) degree of sexual maturity, (c) sexual dimorphism. Ergo, the primary differences are in endocrine expression. And from the data I’ve seen it’s pretty obvious that the majority of the difference in maturity has been testosterone levels.
3) the secondary major change has been how aggressively some groups domesticated their members (east asia, western europe), or how groups have been unable to domesticate their members (africa and the middle east).
4) of the mutations that do occur, these appear to be relatively minor trade-offs that are related to these differences (speed vs endurance).
So as far as I now, evolution by mutation, has been trivial compared to evolution by domestication. This inverts the multi-level selection argument: most genetic mutation and drift is ‘noise’ and domestication has been the primary influence (culture), with the secondary influence being territory.
The genome stores ‘options’ which we seem to express. I am not sure there is much of a case to be made for terribly meaningful genetic variation.
In my work (which seems to have pleasantly shocked the Africans), as far as I can tell, the major differences between regional groups is how successful they have been at eliminating the underclasses and redistributing reproduction upwards.
Unfortunately, it’s impolitic. But it is what it is.
Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 15:59:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 13:15:00 UTC
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It’s amazing how bad the movies are this year. I mean. It’s … it’s like the 70
It’s amazing how bad the movies are this year. I mean. It’s … it’s like the 70’s
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 11:41:00 UTC
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AMORAL PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS: 1 – I do understand ‘domestication as defensive me
AMORAL PROPERTARIAN ANALYSIS:
1 – I do understand ‘domestication as defensive measure’
2 – I do understand ‘profiting from domestication’ – an industry.
3 – I do understand that human domestication has produced the same goods for humanity that the domestication of animals and plants and ‘physics’ have provided.
4 – I do understand ‘transcendence’ as the last most intertemporal decidable criteria in the dispute between preferences.
I think ‘white man’s burden is bit of masturbatory a signal nonsense’
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 11:16:00 UTC
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How will the recognition that western man evolved martial technology, then succe
How will the recognition that western man evolved martial technology, then succeeded in creating a new industry (rule), under which he domesticated people as he had plants and animals?
And that it is this successful domestication, and unsuccessful domestication that separates today’s prosperous from poor peoples?
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 10:58:00 UTC
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REPRODUCTIVE CLASSES Elite – Extremely desirable Upper – Desirable throughout li
REPRODUCTIVE CLASSES
Elite – Extremely desirable
Upper – Desirable throughout life.
Middle – Desirable through fertility,
Upper Lower – Desirable during peak fertility.
Lower – Desirable only as ‘settling’ (last resort)
Lowest – Undesirable
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 10:51:00 UTC
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Secret. If you carry a really long extension cord in a pocket in your backpack,
Secret. If you carry a really long extension cord in a pocket in your backpack, you can sit in the middle of some trees, where a waitress takes care of you while you work. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 07:56:00 UTC
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France has probably declined to the point where it is just another Levantine or
France has probably declined to the point where it is just another Levantine or Mediterranean polity – doubtlessly assuming like Lebanon, it’s superiority in circumventing tribalism. But France will fall. The UK will fall behind France if not corrected. It is up to the Russians and the Americans I think to prevent the fall of Christendom, leaving only the authoritarian models of the Chinese and Russians to survive.
Every era thinks they’re ‘special’ when they fall under the spell of commerce – that is, until their economic premium is exhausted and people revert to group favoritism in order to compete politically for privilege where in the past they competed economically for status.
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 07:37:00 UTC
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“Hypothetically, you can maintain control of a democracy, and progressively incr
—“Hypothetically, you can maintain control of a democracy, and progressively increase net rent extraction, by importing cheaper and cheaper voters; bonus if they’re fast breeders. You can do this as long as people are willing to keep playing democracy.”— Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2016-09-02 06:38:00 UTC