brian_jaress comments on Open Thread: August 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brian_jaress 01 August 2009 11:47:52PM 0 points [-]

A very common belief here is that most human behaviour is based on Paleolithic genes, and only trivial variations are cultural (memetic), coming from fresh genes, or from some other sources.

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If preference for large breasts was genetic, surely there might be a family somewhere with some mutation which would prefer small breasts. Do we have any evidence of that?

Maybe there is also disagreement about what is and isn't a trivial variation.