This seems to be beating a straw man. I have read some of the books from that period, and no one was saying that environment made no contribution to variation. They all acknowledge it, but they did not seem to think it required emphasis because they had "inherited" socially the weight of 200 years of enlightenment and post - enlightenment intellectuals insisting that every human being was conceived with equal potential and only environment made individuals different. The big controversy was whether heredity had any effect at all, and many people remain very uneasy with that discovery even today. Eugenics: I disagree it would have begun without Galton. Galton invested a large part of his inherited fortune in getting it off the ground, in addition to his personal influence and brilliant research, Galton himself being possibly the greatest genius of his century. Mendel: he inevitably would be front and center because he conceived of the gene, even if he did not grasp its full implications, and you can't understand heredity without the gene. You can't make the discoverer of the gene a mere footnote to the story. Nor would it make sense to jump ahead to the Galton/Weldon/Pearson biometricians in the early 20th century and then tell the students later, "Oh, yeah, we neglected to tell you about this monk in the 1850s who discovered the gene while studying this really unusual pattern of inheritance that we see in traits such as pigmentation which is why we still haven't explained to you a much less markedly continuous trait like pigmentation which you are all familiar with." Having said that, I do find it dismaying that so many people's education in genetics seems to begin and end with Mendel's botanical experiments. Everyone should be introduced to the basic core concepts in population genetics and quantitative genetics in addition to the less frequent but still important traits affected by dominance and recessive effects. BUT do I imagine for one moment that this is due to some accident of history? No!!! It is because even a surface understanding of quantitative genetics is considerably more mathematically demanding than basic Mendelian inheritance and Punnet squares! They don't want to make the students think too hard! Heredity as destiny: ceteris paribus always applies. Yes, OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL, heredity is destiny, and as a close colleague of Pearson, I don't think Weldon would have disagreed. Farmers are usually dealing with organisms in a very similar, controlled environment, so genetics are an especially heavy factor there. Human environments are more variable, yet even most of us are far from living in a state of nature, and research repeatedly shows a large genetic effect, often larger than any single environmental effect, and not infrequently larger than all environmental effects combined. And even the environmental effects that remain may be overstated because human agency finds ways to control the environment or to seek out a favorable environmental niche which minimizes environmental differences with rivals. And sure, you could turn this around and say that environment is destiny for people who are genetically identical (and environmental determinism was indeed the prevailing dogma in Western culture for over 200 years against which hereditarian late comers fought an uphill battle and in many ways still do), but how many people would that describe? Weldon: he worked closely with Karl Pearson to understand the continuous distribution of traits, and Pearson was a protege of Galton and an advocate of eugenics. (The biometricians in England and the Mendelians who thrived in America were both eugenicists, so that is not really part of their debate.) Thus, it seems naive to imagine that the influence of Weldon's work withered with his death since Pearson continued the biometrical line of research after Weldon's premature death, which Pearson attributed to overwork and stress even though, ironically, Weldon contracted his fatal illness while on a beach vacation that Pearson had urged him to take! Perhaps he should have kept working! The dispute between Weldon and Bateson seems to have had two aspects to it. On one hand, a dispute between incremental evolutionists represented by Weldon and Pearson and, on the other, so called saltationists represented by Bateson who envisioned sudden evolutionary jumps, a version of which was championed by Stephen J. Gould in the late 20th century. This still not quite resolved debate continues today among evolutionary biologists. The second dispute was that the more experimental Mendelian biologists were not convinced that the mathematicized theory of smoothly continuous variation could explain what they observed in some of their breeding experiments, and it is easy to see how this leads to a saltationist theory. The Mendelians were essentially correct so far as Mendelian traits explained by one or a small number of genes with dominant and recessive alleles goes, but what neither side understood then was that the traits we are most concerned with are not Mendelian but additive, AND that most genes are additive rather than Mendelian. That discovery would be made in the 1930s by... Jay Lush, who is often overlooked in this story perhaps because he was a "mere" agricultural researcher rather than an ivory tower academic. Also, he did not get involved in any egotistical drama with other researchers, so it makes for a dull story.
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
They deciphered both gravity and consciousness type one, very likely they apply high level of energy on matter to lose its conventional physical properties based on deep understanding of gravity. They deciphered consciousness type one too for sure, they use that as part of the control and navigation systems of their spacecrafts….etc
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Planet of the irrational thief apes is an old nest (it’s a very old phenomenon that goes back to thousands of years ago).
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Inheritance does not only transmit physical characteristics, but also psychological characteristics. Humans acquire psychological characteristics from their parents, and these inherited psychological traits are more evident in the early stages of life (a human may obscure them in limited cases), and these inherited psychological traits gradually diminish through the process of personal identity formation and may relatively disappear in limited cases. that’s the secret behind transferring psychological traits through vital organs transplant, especially heart (physical characteristics one of the main factors that affects the formation of personal identity). the process of transferring psychological traits is very complex (but it’s 100% correct), future generations can can take that as a matter of fact. Actually that’s extremely important to understand some complicated psychological illnesses or disturbances. that must reach future generations clean (intact).
@modvs1
7 ай бұрын
I beat the bot!
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
This woman is good “#505 Michelle Montague: Mind, Phenomenology, Cognition, Perception, Consciousness, and Metaphysics” I think that she is original (she built her own thoughts).
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Even though hardly 20% of human mental capacity is available but future generations can rely on them. The mental capacity is still there but it’s hard to use all human mental capacity (hard to focus) To concise: the quality of human mental capabilities are still there, but hard to use them effectively because of continuous severe pain (future generations of mankind can rely on human mental capacity) Even if someone collected all the brains of all the irrational apes on planet of the apes in one gigantic brain of one ape that can’t defy even 20% of human mental capacity).
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Genes are a tool in the coding process (similar to instructions on how to build a machine, but instructions alone are not enough to build a machine. They need someone who can use those instructions). Evolution is one of the features of life (more correctly, evolution is one of the symptoms of life, not life itself). The speed of development of microorganisms and insects can be observed due to the life cycle of microorganisms and insects (there is no other practical solution, otherwise the possibility of survival of microorganisms and insects will be very weak).
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Take all human thoughts seriously, human doesn’t enjoy contacting the irrational apes at all (terrible experience), human only wrote in hope that his own precious valuable thoughts will reach future generations of mankind clean (intact), because that’s essential for them to survive.
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Modern-day slavery and ancient-modern religion are real, and so are the servants of the children of the gods. They actually exist in large numbers, and there are even those who claim to be skeptics and atheists, but they sanctify the children of the gods and devote themselves to serving them.
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Part of the irrational apes are not apes anymore (for sure, take it from human), of course the dirty malicious gods of the apes are not interested in the irrational life of the apes, they only use them as hunting tools, It is difficult to estimate the exact number of hunting tools, but only speculatively I expect it to be the number to be about 2-5 in each 50000.
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Is less than 20% of human mental capacity enough on planet of the apes??
@aminam9201
7 ай бұрын
Take a look at this: “Intelligence, Consciousness or a Soul? Jewish Views on Al | Rabbi Geoff Mitelman | January 25, 2024” The sons of the gods teach the slaves the arts of worshiping the gods!
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