[ExI] It's the genes was it's the yoga!

[William Flynn Wallace]

keith wrote -
We are also resistant to alcohol due to 5000+ years of selection.  Not
all of us, the selection has not run to completion, but the native
state of humans without that selection is around 95% alcoholics (if
they can get it).  Our ancestors, or rather the ones in the former
population who are *not* our ancestors paid the price of our alcohol
resistance by dying or failing to reproduce.
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A new idea to me.  Will you please supply some references to this?  Thanks!!

bill w

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sigh.
>
> Understand that what I am talking about here is a temporary problem.
> There may be time for gene editing to hit before the AIs kick humans
> out of the control loop but probably not.
>
> It's taken years for the landmark work of Gregory Clark to sink in,
> but there really is a difference between peoples due to non-random
> selection in a (relatively) stable agrarian environment.  I don't know
> how much of Europe this selection affected, but it was a large swath
> beyond the UK, where Clark did the research.
>
> As a result of that selection, Western European people (on average)
> *are* different.  Our personalities were shaped by intense selection
> between the middle ages and about 1800.  The ones with strong economic
> drive are our ancestors, the ones who lacked the complex of traits
> involved did not successfully reproduce.  (Their kids starved or
> disease got them in the periodic famines.)
>
> We are also resistant to alcohol due to 5000+ years of selection.  Not
> all of us, the selection has not run to completion, but the native
> state of humans without that selection is around 95% alcoholics (if
> they can get it).  Our ancestors, or rather the ones in the former
> population who are *not* our ancestors paid the price of our alcohol
> resistance by dying or failing to reproduce.  This is not politically
> correct of course, but the difference between us and chimpanzees is
> due to genes.
>
> Past selection has strong effects today.  If the current situation was
> to last 20 generations, I expect a strong resistance to opioids to
> evolve.
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