inclusive fitness
there’s some amount of confusion out there in the hbd-o-sphere (and beyond!) about inclusive fitness, which is understandable since the concept is not that straightforward — especially for those of us...
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edit: see also this type of response (shame/embarassment) from japan – Some Japanese See Slain Hostages, Abe as Troublemakers. h/t frau katze for that one! _____ make no mistake about it, there is...
View Articlethere and back again: shame and guilt in ancient greece
william hamilton wondered if renaissances/enlightenments happened in places roughly 800 years after some hardy altruism genes were introduced by barbarians into panmictic (really outbred) populations....
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outbreeding and individualism
northern europeans began to think of — or at least write about — themselves as individuals beginning in the eleventh century a.d. [pgs. 158, 160, and 64-67 – bolding and links inserted by me]: “The...
View Articlegenomes wanted!
just a reminder: davide piffer and jeff hsu are looking for the genomes of clever folks. if you have a high iq, and have made use of 23andMe’s services, they’d like to poke around in your data!: This...
View Articletime enough
this is just me cutting-and-pasting a couple of comments from jayman…’cause they’re AWEsome comments! (^_^) they’re from the discussion to my outbreeding and individualism post, and they’re a response...
View Articlehistoric mating patterns of ashkenazi jews
i’ve hinted around a few times now that i think — going by some things that i’ve read — that the historic mating patterns of ashkenazi jews (i.e. whether or not they married close cousins and/or...
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the one where i draw squiggly lines all over the welzel-inglehart cultural map
the welzel-inglehart cultural map 2015: and with the hajnal line drawn on it (the hajnal line bisects some countries): and with father’s brother’s daughter marriage nations outlined: that is all....
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do you think like a westerner? (repeat)
i offered up this little pop quiz back in 2013, and i’m resurrecting it ’cause i want to talk about this some more. first, the quiz: in which group does the flower at the bottom belong: group a or...
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