[ExI] Evolutionary psychology and recent selection was trump

[John Clark]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

​>​
> I don't understand, people tend to intellectionly reject that genetics
> ​ ​
> has anything to do with human personalities (blank slate plus).


​True, many people still believe in the blank slate even though there is a
ton of evidence showing is just ain't so.​


human
> ​ ​
> psychology underwent as strong a selection over 20 generations in some
> ​ ​
> societies as the Russian tame foxes over the same number of
> ​ ​
> generations.


​But the evidence to support that idea isn't ​that great either. If it were
that simple wouldn't you expect African-Americans to have a lower crime
rate and be less violent than the general population? After all they're
descendants of slaves and a submissive non-violent slave gets into less
trouble than a rebellious violent slave. When runaway slaves were caught
one of the punishments was castration, so if there is a gene for
rebelliousness it's not getting into any future generations, but his
brother with submissive genes who was content with the status quo stayed
home and had lots of children. Maybe things are more complicated with
people than with foxes.

 John K Clark
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