"... my default assumption since the 1990s has been to begin by guessing that, for whatever trait is under consideration, genetics and the environment are about equal in influence." takimag.com/article/twins-… ...
... My default is far more contrarian. Official dogma would require far less hysterical policing if it wasn't in approximate direct opposition to reality.
... Taking eye color as a model trait helps.
Nature or nurture -- which has the greatest influence on you not being a fruit bat?
Nature or nurture -- which has the greatest influence on you not being a fruit bat?
... If anthropo-normative parenting wasn't preventing people raising their kids as fruit bats, who knows?
... Monogenic traits can be taken as a valuable clue as to the probable heritability of polygenic traits.
... This is to switch the focus of attention from phentoypic traits to genotypic characteristics, i.e. deep biological features that will be similarly expressed phenotypically under similar conditions. (Ref. Steve's Hegelian obesity thesis.)
...
"Noooo, we want to know whether people are actually fat!"
"How much quality racism can you do with that, though?"
"Noooo, we want to know whether people are actually fat!"
"How much quality racism can you do with that, though?"
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