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The way I conceptualize of it is that evolution is still almost entirely Darwinian, but that there's also a ton of other stuff that happens. Without wanting to
by toasterlovin 9y ago
The way I conceptualize of it is that evolution is still almost entirely Darwinian, but that there's also a ton of other stuff that happens. Without wanting to get political, I think a good analogy would be human gender and sexuality. The statement that there are two human sexes, male and female, and that they seek each other out for the purpose of mating explains somewhere around 95% of what you see in humans. But human sexuality is complicated and to get to an explanation that encompasses 100% of what you observe requires vastly expanding your model of what's going on. So what's going on now with evolution is that we are discovering all the little ways in which evolution is complicated.
- CryoLogic 9y agoBut thats how all economic models work. The reliability of the model depends on how many standard deviations you go out to the left or right from the center. So I don't think it's anything really new.
- whatshisface 9y agoA slight mismatch in your analogy is that G&S studies doesn't explain anything, they just categorize it. They aren't proposing any mechanisms.
- toasterlovin 9y agoThere is definitely serious research into the causal mechanisms of homosexuality and transgenderism.
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