The blank slate just got destroyed. By Hitchslap.
New paper from Nature shows, “strong direction selection” for complex traits in Europe, including cognitive performance (IQ).
i/o:
Population genetics just dropped an atom bomb on blank slate science denial in the pages of Nature.
We were told for decades that evolution could not have meaningfully operated on the human brain in the “short period” of time since humans left Africa for Europe and Asia around 50,000 years ago.
In fact, it’s been accelerating over the past 10,000 years, and the proof is in our DNA, and the DNA of our ancient ancestors. Bigger data sets and improved scientific techniques are exposing the ideologically-motivated lie that’s been ruthlessly enforced in academia since the 60s: Population groups are biologically all the same under the skin.
Reich himself warned liberals back in 2017 that they needed to prepare for some bad news, and that if they didn’t they were going to end up on the wrong side of the scientific revolution occurring in genetics. But rather than accepting his argument, Reich was attacked.
Now the bad news is arriving.
Commenters:
Surprised they were allowed to publish this. …
We domesticated ourselves like we did dogs. No magic potion or visit from monoliths. …
Stephen Jay Gould, as usual, shown to be not only wrong but a duplicitous propagandist. …
I predict that this result will not have any impact at all on the mainstream discourse. The view that humans have not meaningfully evolved since out of Africa is now clearly wrong; but there are no direct consequences for being wrong on this point – no bridges will collapse, the airplanes will not fall out of the sky – so no change is required. …
Blank slatism has been dead since the 1970s. academics have know this forever but were targeted and silenced by the rabid horde of marxists embedded everywhere in our society. …
“blank state just got destroyed”. Yeah for the millionth time I guess. …
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. …
Wait for the implications of violent behavior, low average IQ, and solipsism on other genetic groups. What’s funny is that any dog breeder has known it for thousands of years. Too many “educated” assholes in academia, I guess. …
It’s so incredibly obvious when you think about it. How would evolution have worked so effectively on skin color, eye shape, and so on, while miraculously exerting no differential selective pressure whatsoever on anything not superficially visible?
It is inevitable that advances in genetics will arrive at the truth about genetic influences and evolution on IQ etc., thus destroying the left’s self-serving ideology of blank slatism.
The political question is where the outcome is uncertain. How long can the left keep pretending blank slatism is true? That average IQ’s don’t differ markedly between groups, and that economic performance, trust, etc. and IQ aren’t strongly linked? Meanwhile they are importing lots of immigrants from low IQ populations into the West.