Wael

@coevolutionist

biology/behavior/biotech | personality differences are amplified on twitter | rt/follows indicate amusement not endorsement. ☧ He lived ☧

Joined April 2016

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  1. Jun 6
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    His work on math/statistics/probability is award-winning, and most certainly deserves acclaim. It's his hobby hypotheses (i.e. IQ means nothing, Lebanese is a non-dialectical autonomous language descended from Phoenician) that lead him to say dumb and nasty things.

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  2. Jun 6
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    I'm not as important as , so I'm fairly sure I'll avoid a block, let alone epithets or verbal abuse

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  3. Jun 6

    Not only did Semitic languages NOT emerge from the Caucasus-Zagros-Anatolia area, and not only did Indo-Europeans have an identity predicated on NOT having anything to do with agriculture, but PopGen studies suggest IndoYuro/Semite connection is linguistic and sprachbund ONLY.

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  4. Jun 3

    Forgot to include the actual Tweet on the neanderthals, but many people were getting confused in the multiple threads that spawned out of 's OG tweet, which is why I brought them into this thread. is a safe and neanderthal-inclusive space

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  5. Jun 3
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    Now I think you're stretching. You directly, overtly, repeatedly criticized the author for what you mistakenly called 'his claim' about cold winter environments, even though he refers to credible research in the article on this point, which is only tangential for him anyway.

  6. Jun 3

    I think our best shot is to negotiate point-by-point on both causes we support and those we oppose. Trump having a few good policies doesn't discount his character flaws, and the noted issues with 's essay doesn't discount influence of climate on human evolution/Thred

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  7. Jun 3

    Again, there's stuff to critique in the original paper by . But the climate-evolution-brains connection wasn't even an original argument - and because critics didn't do their homework, creepy race-obsessed weirdos are leaping in to claim a win. Not good for science.

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  8. Jun 3

    Okay then, SO WHAT ABOUT THE NEANDERTHALS, HUH? Great! I'm glad you asked. They're actually the best example we have for the climate as a selection pressure on divergent brain evolution (size and function). This is from Beals et al. 1984, who discount racism on page 1.

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  9. Jun 3

    This isn't particular to evpsych or life history theory - it's actually a theoretical consensus in evbio. Here, Richerson, Boyd, and Henrich (now head of Harvard HumanEvBio) make the same point in an article on gene-culture coevolution.

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  10. Jun 3

    First, Will thinks that because cold = harsh, hot should also select for intelligence because hot = harsh. In reality, it's not only harshness but unpredictability that imposes an extrinsic mortality regime favoring mating effort over somatic effort. Ref is Chua et al. 2017

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  11. Jun 3

    But while I'm always glad to see (constructive) criticism in aca, a number of criticisms by Will, though popular, reveal a clear lack of familiarity with the areas of evolutionary science he's criticizing. Since many seemed swayed by him, I wanted to correct the record.

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  12. Jun 1
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    >I thought u were Lebanese this whole time a man can dream

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  13. Jun 1
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    yeah i've been following it for days. i've also been threatened over the course of it, and accused of being a 'bad actor' by hysterical self-declared 'skeptics'.

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  14. Jun 1
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    With all due respect, I think you may be misinterpreting this dialogue. I asked for evidence for several claims she made, and her response was to make a series of accusations and claims that extended to my professional life. I don't think that's an appropriate way to debate.

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  15. Jun 1

    این واژه "الحاد" یا "آتئیسم" دیگه معنی خوبی نداره فقط انحطاط ویا فسادو معنی می بخشد غیر از مسیحیت، "راه مستقیم" وجود نداره

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  16. May 30

    The authors interpret this result as an instance of coevolution, but I'm on the fence. Do we know for sure that eye tracking and gaze-based inference are due to domestication and unshared with big cats or other mammals?

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  17. May 24
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    To clarify, here's where you implicitly impugn Dr. Carl's character, in case it isn't obvious

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  18. May 18
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    To be frank I don't think this specific example supports your case, but I do agree with the general rule

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  19. May 18
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    In case I'm not making myself clear, please check out Kuran's book 'The Long Divergence - How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East' (2012) which contains an entire chapter describing how polygyny harmed gender equality and private enterprise, among other things.

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  20. May 15

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