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I'm not a scientist, so I'm looking at the subjects here from a different angle. I've read the Harpending/Cochran book and I've read the book "Born on a Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet, on his Asperger's Syndrome. I wrote an article offering the notion that perhaps we are all somewhere on the autism disorder spectrum: http://pavellas.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/where-are-you-on-the-autism-disorder-spectrum/ Best wishes, Ron Pavellas http://pavellas.com.
I'm not sure that statement is really meaningful in a nontrivial way. If we just consider autism, then there's some opposite end of that spectrum; of course everyone's somewhere on it, but you would expect most people to be at 0, or as near as makes no difference.
This seems a good time to point out that actually, there's now pretty good evidence that that spectrum does not end at neurotypicality, but continues past it to an actual "opposite" of autism - schizophrenia. Assuming this is correct, everyone is indeed somewhere on that spectrum!