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Intelligence is selected for in humans. Therefore any individual gene that significantly boosts intelligence should be expected to have already spread through t
by idanoeman 11y ago
Intelligence is selected for in humans. Therefore any individual gene that significantly boosts intelligence should be expected to have already spread through the population, or has a trade-off that reduces reproductive fitness.
The same can be said with drugs -- any chemical that your body could have reasonably produced on its own should be expected to reduce your reproductive fitness. So brain drugs should nearly all have side-effects.