So unbelievably convenient I don't even believe it
Could you do all the research on a boat in the ocean? Excuse the naive question.
Women/girls with big heads tend to hit their heads but you can solve that with bigger arms.
use of a genotyping pipeline poorly suited to ancient DNA which meant that 80% of the genetic variants they "analysed" were likely completely artefactual and did not exist.
Brutal!! I didn't know this gotcha existed. I hope there aren't too many papers silently gotch'd by it. Sounds like the type of error that could easily be widespread and unnoticed, if the statistical trace it leaves isn't always obvious.
To dumb it down a bit, here's my made up example: you get +1 IQ if your brain has surplus oxygen in the blood flowing through it. There's 1000 ways to get a bit more oxygen in there, but with +1000 oxygen, you still only get +1 IQ.
Is that the idea?
Good point! I didn't think that far ahead
I would vote to be ruled by their carbon children instead of their silicon children for certain
GeneSmith forgot to explicitly say that you can and should weight against sociopathy. Parents will be motivated to do this because if your kid is a jerk then your life will be miserable. (I do think if you select for success without selecting against sociopathy then you'll get lots of sociopaths.)
I would bet against some weird disease manifesting, especially if you are weighting for general health.