Autism, Neanderthals, and the risk of racism / eugenics

[Akka]

Real Mandate of Heaven stuff here folks (btw it's reproduction that is key to genetic fitness, not survival per se)

Actually if you want to be pedantic, it's multi-generational transmission, because if you reproduce and all your younglings die, it just ends up the same as not reproducing at all.

 

[Theov]

Real Mandate of Heaven stuff here folks (btw it's reproduction that is key to genetic fitness, not survival per se)

They go hand in hand, if you can't survive, you're not going to reproduce.
Sure, sometimes, but, in nature, over many generations, the ones who don't survive, reproduce less.
Genetic fitness (survival) leads to reproduction, not the other way around.

 

[Lexicus]

There is no such thing as "good" or "best" genes, only genes well-adapted for specific circumstances, and even that is complicated by epigenetics in ways we don't understand.

 

[Yeekim]

I would say being able to adapt and survive is the only objective definition of having the best genes.

Real Mandate of Heaven stuff here folks (btw it's reproduction that is key to genetic fitness, not survival per se)

There is no such thing as "good" or "best" genes, only genes well-adapted for specific circumstances.

Are you guys in fact agreeing with each other or is one of you horribly racist? If so, which one? I cannot tell.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

In fact we all are agreeing but some people apparently enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing.