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Watson was vastly simplifying genomics, as is this letter. To grasp the details requires knowledge of class, culture, nutrition, and genomics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014105



the Nature paper is empirically spot-on and theoretically obsolete at the same time

it reflects a pre-1990s dogmatic belief in extrapolationist macroevolution.

It treats high heritability + polygenic additive variance as if that somehow proves the Modern Synthesis was right about everything

It never once mentions developmental constraint, niche construction, active rGE as a macroevolutionary ratchet, cultural-genetic co-evolution, or any of the other mechanisms that the post-2000 literature now recognizes as necessary for understanding why human g exploded in the last million years

YMMV


Evidence? Plomin isn't some slouch, and the paper's from 2014.




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