Heritability = a statistical description of sources of interindividual variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn't index a fixed underlying feature of human biology. A few lines in this paper acknowledge that but its overall framing may mislead.
Vital point, often lost:
"As the team notes, the heritability of any trait isn’t a fixed number that is true for everyone, everywhere, anytime. Rather, it applies to only a specific population in a specific environment."
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Just nu pågår ”den största vetenskapliga krisen någonsin” som riskerar att urholka grunden för och förtroendet för forskning. I dag presenteras Stockholmsdeklarationen av Dan Larhammar m fl för att komma åt problemet.
Agree 100 %. So fun and challenging to teach these brilliant minds!
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Jag försöker reda ut lite om det här med arv och miljö, samt den nyfunna vurmen för eugenik.
On the other hand, Lewontins view of British ecology is on par with this. But funnier.
“On the tendency of Species to form Varieties” paper by Wallace and Darwin originally published in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. Read on 1st July 1858 at the Society.
Portrait of Darwin (1809-1882) commissioned by the Society in 1883 which can be found in the Society’s Meeting Room.
Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).
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Det evolutionära avståndet mellan den utdöda jättevargen (dire wolf) och den vanliga gråvargen är ca lika stor som mellan schimpans och människa. Jag har skrivit om ”återskapandet” av dessa så kallade jättevargar och hur genetik är en symfoni, inte soloslingor.
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No, dire wolves are not back.
The IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group cautions that gene-edited grey wolves are not true dire wolves, nor do they offer direct conservation value.
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HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.
Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.
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"There has been a progressive decline in fieldwork-based research and education in ecology over recent decades", precisely at a time when we most urgently need a better understanding of how natural systems work. So sad.
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Huvudregeln är väl att inte underskatta folks intelligens och inte överskatta deras kunskap. Många har noll koll om ett ämne, men kan trots det förstå ganska intrikata förklaringar. Men det är svåra avvägningar.
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