Wael

@coevolutionist

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

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    May 6

    This is not evidence for any 'innate' qualities belonging to Islam or Muslims. It's evidence for the utter failure of secular Germany. If your multicultural national ideology is so unappealing that newcomers show zero interest in joining your nation, then your nation is a failure

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  2. Jun 6

    So congratulations to - a man who can violate linguistics, population genetics, and geography in 280 characters. What a great use of talent

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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 6

    I recommend you check out this great thread by Taleb on common misconceptions learned by undergrads. But holy mother of cringe, this tweet... Many of you will feel my pain, but others read on to the next tweet:

    101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 2 Semitic & Indo European languages appear to BOTH emerge from the same area in the Caucasus-Zagros-Anatolia, owing to proximity of agricultural…
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  5. Jun 6

    Westerners talk about secularism as if it opens the door to some 'common humanity'. But where is the common humanity toward Eastern Christians, for whom yesterday you crusaded, and today ignore? America intervened in Bosnia to save Muslims from genocide; what of Yazidis? Copts?

    As we speak, in the village of Samalot Minya, local extremists are currently attacking Coptic homes during Eid celebrations. The police as usual in Minya are just looking on & doing nothing as usual, the village has been plagued by sectarian violence for years now, with extremist
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  6. Retweeted
    Jun 6

    GWAS signals of intelligence, educational attainment, ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder are strongly enriched for synaptic genes (MDD and schizophrenia less so, and height isn't at all). Source:

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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 3

    Really enjoyed hearing tell us Why There Is No Hope...hilarious and thought-provoking. But I was irritated at how he kept mentioning Jesus and Mohammad interchangeably. They were VERY different men. Yes, they both inspired a religion, but that's the only similarity.

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Jun 3

    On a high level, I think this problem relates to our cognitive bias toward thinking in groups. When ppl say insane things like 'evolution is racist' and 'Donald Trump is a great president' they're probably afraid that if their cause is only partially right, it isn't right at all

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  11. Jun 3

    This is in no way a 'callout' of , who is a great and highly productive anthropologist. But it DOES show that when ppl don't do homework before criticizing, bizarre raciophilic evolution deniers and innocent bystanders are affected by our momentary ignorance.

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Jun 3

    Explanation: if your threats can be prevented (intrinsic) then investing energy in prevention will improve biological fitness. If threats are constant and can kill randomly (extrinsic) then investing in immediate reproduction will be more efficient for fitness. It's simple stuff.

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Jun 3

    I read the article (whopping 56 pages) and found a few flaws. My main problem is w the correlation between economic complexity today and cold environments, which cannot be used to make evolutionary arguments. Whites did not evolve in hot Australia etc

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  19. Jun 3

    Predictably, this bit in particular got a lot of criticism. One critic was , who called the cold claim "wildly unpersuasive" to which many users tweeted agreement. So is it just BS after all?

    There are more words in this paper devoted to discussing American cars and the novel Pride and Prejudice than there are actually attempting to demonstrate the proposed link between 'cold winters' and selective pressures for more innovation.
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  20. Jun 3

    At the NorthEastern EvPsychSoc conference 2019, PhD candidate presented work proposing a theoretical framework for sexual selection in humans. It got attention for this bit on cold and intelligence/innovation

    Among 122 countries, colder climates predict higher intelligence, and ultimately, stronger economic complexity. Research by suggests winter imposed selective pressures for creativity and innovation. …
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  21. Jun 3

    Academic disagreements should result in improved scientific literacy for both participants and observers, but on Twitter, they are often the unintended cause of scientific ignorance and biased groupthink. I summarize a recent example (thread):

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