Kaj_Sotala comments on Fundamentally Flawed, or Fast and Frugal? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 20 December 2009 03:10PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 December 2009 10:45:18PM 5 points [-]

Hunter-gatherers, possibly not, but we've had agriculture around for 10,000 years. That has been enough time for other selection effects (for instance, the persistent domestication of cattle, and the associated dairying activities, did alter the selective environments of some human populations for sufficient generations to select for genes that today confer greater adult lactose tolerance), so I'd be cautious about putting too much weight on the hunter-gatherer environment.

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 December 2009 10:39:31PM 0 points [-]

Why be needlessly inflammatory?

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 23 December 2009 08:30:26PM 0 points [-]

Cultural differences are hard to factor out, too.

Comment author: Larks 23 December 2009 07:54:49PM 1 point [-]

It provides an test for the theory?