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There's nothing inherently slow about selection on psychological traits. To give just one striking example, there is extremely rapid selection against intellige
by bobcostas55 7y ago
There's nothing inherently slow about selection on psychological traits. To give just one striking example, there is extremely rapid selection against intelligence in advanced societies going on right now, at a rate of about 0.25-0.3 standard deviations per century.
US: https://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2016/05/25/1523592113.DCSupplemental/pnas.1523592113.sapp.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2016/05/25/1523592113.DCS... (Table S11)
Taiwan: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289616303038 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
Iceland: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vq5t6urtu930xe/2017-kong.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vq5t6urtu930xe/2017-kong.pdf