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evolutionistx
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evolutionistx is a personal blog at evolutionistx.wordpress.com about science and culture. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/06/08/no-hunter-gatherers-were-not-peaceful-paragons-of-gender-equality/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-08
What Hacker News says?
No, a lapsed memory can be provoked. It doesn't have to be relearned. It is "lapsed" because the organizational path to it within your brain has been lost, like a book in a library that has been left out of the card catalog, but just like the book, if you happen to find it anyway, it will be there. Compare, from https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/anthropology-... : > at the first news of English ships in…
Comment linking /2016/12/16/anthropology-friday-the-life-and-adventures-of-william-buckley-pt-33/
on “Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain”Submitted Color Wheel Frustration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQuite so. Most twin studies on the subject turn up similar findings: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/time-preferen... "The best fitting model for 41 key studies (58 independent samples from 14 month old infants to adults; N=27,147) included equal proportions of variance due to genetic (0.50) and non-shared environmental (0.50) influences, with genetic effects being both additive (0.38) and non-additiv…
Comment linking /2015/10/02/time-preference-the-most-under-appreciated-mental-trait/
on “How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations”Submitted Turkey: Not very Turkic (a genetic history of the Turkic peoples) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo benefits? > The heaviest smokers, with everything else being equal, had about half the number of parasitic eggs in their stool, compared to everyone else > Smoking kills. But if you’re a bird and if you want to kill parasites, that can be a good thing. City birds have taken to stuffing their nests with cigarette butts to poison potential parasites. > 8 intestinal parasite species have been recovered singly or in…
Comment linking /2018/04/18/did-tobacco-become-popular-because-it-kills-parasites/
on “Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash”Submitted Prison Law, Gang Law as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>Why do humans have such a large mutation load.. Modern technology? https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/evolution-is-...
Comment linking /2017/07/24/evolution-is-slow-until-its-fast-genetic-load-and-the-future-of-humanity/
on “A List of Open Questions”Submitted The architecture of communication as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHomicide rates in hunter gatherer societies are extremely high: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gat...
Comment linking /2015/06/08/no-hunter-gatherers-were-not-peaceful-paragons-of-gender-equality/
on “Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?”> There is absolutely no evidence to believe HIV possitive patients go around infecting others intentionally. You should worry a little more about overreaching. There's lots of evidence of this. https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/aids-and-cali... > "It was at this time that rumors began on Castro Street in San Francisco about a strange guy at the Eighth and Howard bathhouse, a blond with a French accent.…
Comment linking /2015/06/26/aids-and-california/
on “HIV status of over 14,000 people leaked online, Singapore authorities say”Pitched battles weren't a Stone Age occurence, true. That is more of a state and proto-state phenomenon. Tribal wars usually had form of raiding. There is ample evidence for homicide among hunters and gatherers, though. We don't like to hear it, because the Noble Savage myth is still going strong. https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gat... Yeah, we don't have a comprehensive record of every trib…
Comment linking /2015/06/08/no-hunter-gatherers-were-not-peaceful-paragons-of-gender-equality/
on “Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days”
