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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 6 years ago
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@realjdburnett @eigenrobot We focus on genes like some kind of scientific fetish. I think it's massively oversimplifying the complex nature of adaptation and responses to resources in the environment. Missing the population forest for the gene trees.https://t.co/4JcsUrG1yn
UltimApe@ultimape• over 6 years ago
One possible reason we think that genes predisposing for intelligence also encode for depression is because the smarter rats learn quicker that if they stop squirming when hung by their tails they are let out of the torture chamber faster by their care takers.