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Re: The need for detail
He might have been a better writer to have replaced ''those Nigerian babies'' with ''these babies'' because after all 5% of the babies of European descent lack the gene(s) too. Thanks for reminding us of the context of Saletan’s quote. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. Firstly: It is not 5% of all babies of European descent ...
Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 30, 2007
Re: Why the regret?
Part of the problem is the unsoundness of making longtitudinal projections on horizontal or slice of life data. These measurements have indeed been made over the last hundred years or so, but the statistical populations themselves are still being sorted out by the anthropologists and archaeologists, and attempts to apply these measurements to what ...
Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 29, 2007