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They (intelligent people) are more likely to be homosexual, because humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually. Whaa??? That's the kind of
by noonespecial 14y ago
They (intelligent people) are more likely to be homosexual, because humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually.
Whaa??? That's the kind of thing you just can't assert without a mountain of evidence. I'm actually surprised he stopped short of saying that they're more likely to be white because the first humans evolved with darker skin tones.
This is reactor-grade crackpottery.
- gojomo 14y agoKanazawa's reasoning is not based on 'which traits came first' but 'which traits were adaptive for the long periods at which evolutionary selection works'. A darker skin tone is (and was) adaptive at certain latitudes and climates; a lighter skin tone is (and was) adaptive in other places. Neither is more adaptive globally on evolutionary time scales, so your strawman doesn't seem a fair generalization of his theorizing.
- patricklynch 14y agoTwo things: Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?: [1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual., [2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually., or [3]. The causal relationship, [2] --> [1] --- Are you really expecting a "mountain of evidence" in a blog post? His main point, that intelligent people are more likely to seek novelty and deviate from evolutionary norms, seems plausible. And it's almost certainly addressed in greater detail by one of the many pointers to suggested reading.