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If whatever genetic feature that has made someone more intelligent didn't come with downsides, then we would expect it to be more prevalent in the population.
by anothernewdude 5y ago
If whatever genetic feature that has made someone more intelligent didn't come with downsides, then we would expect it to be more prevalent in the population.
Excepting any that have only recently arisen, but I'd assume those to be rare.
- explodingman 5y agoOnly if intelligence leads to greater fitness in the Darwinian sense. Don't confuse higher socio-economic status with Darwinian fitness. Plenty of people of quite modest intelligence and limited achievement are successfully passing their genes on to the next generation. Recommended reading: The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
- ptsneves 5y agoDing ding. The reason I love hn! Never heard of that book and from the wiki entry it sounds amazing and hopefully not prescient.
- nameisname 5y agoIt's got what plants crave.