tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post1668456462949172561..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: Extraversion: a tool for mating successPeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-29386291968491541542010-12-11T23:37:41.381-05:002010-12-11T23:37:41.381-05:00where does culture come from?
http://hbdchick.wor...where does culture come from?<br /><br />http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/extraversion-and-culture/<br /><br />besos,<br />hbd chick (^_^)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-30051137151386666982010-11-13T12:08:22.821-05:002010-11-13T12:08:22.821-05:00I think infant survival is the key factor. Neuroti...<i><br />I think infant survival is the key factor. Neurotic mothers are more likely to monitor their kids and keep them out of harm's way.<br /></i><br /><br />This is related to my points in your article about lactase persistence.<br /><br />Any behavioral trait that improves offspring survival rates will be selected for and will sweep through a population. Differential survival!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-24963631779549697862010-11-12T19:22:47.241-05:002010-11-12T19:22:47.241-05:00> Women with above-medium neuroticism had 12% m...> Women with above-medium neuroticism had 12% more children than those with below-medium neuroticism, after controlling for age and marital rank. <br /><br />Why correct for marital rank. Maybe neurotics had high marital rank, but maybe they had low. In any case, it's unrealistic to correct for marital rank, assuming you're trying to learn about nature - nature does not correct for this.<br /><br />One shouldn't adjust for age either, unless one also factors in the odds of premature death or debility or infertility. Again, nature does not permit every woman to go from age X to Y intact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-27667979070248037482010-11-12T19:15:16.610-05:002010-11-12T19:15:16.610-05:00Anon,
It's not women who are the 'commons...Anon,<br /><br />It's not women who are the 'commons' but rather mating opportunities. When men pay a high price for mating, we can maintain the illusion that mating opportunities are limitless. When the price is low (because someone else is paying), the result is scarcity. And unlike most markets, this kind of scarcity is not self-correcting.<br /><br />Anon,<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Ben10,<br /><br />Yes, natural selection can move very fast if the genetic variation already exists. There's no need to wait for new mutations.<br /><br />Tod,<br /><br />I think infant survival is the key factor. Neurotic mothers are more likely to monitor their kids and keep them out of harm's way.Peter Frostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-35198118307611601012010-11-11T14:26:47.706-05:002010-11-11T14:26:47.706-05:00Women with above-medium neuroticism had 12% more c...<b>Women with above-medium neuroticism had 12% more children than those with below-medium neuroticism, after controlling for age and marital rank. </b><br /><br />Maybe because they worry and take better care of their children, but that would be expected to result in a larger number of <i>surviving</i> children<br /><br />Neuroticism being correlated with <i>having</i> more children would rather suggest that the most fertile women were more neurotic as a side effect of being more fertile, possible due to a 'more female' hormonal balance.<br /><br />Or maybe the neuroticism helped women get more attention from the husband and made them somewhat more likely to get pregnant.Todnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-27131343978425507802010-11-10T10:50:56.144-05:002010-11-10T10:50:56.144-05:00There was an interesting show on the cable science...There was an interesting show on the cable science channel about an experiment in Siberia. There, foxes are selected against agressive and fear behavior by selective breeding. It took the experiment only 3 generations to make a fox like a pet dog with no fear of human beings.<br />The 'tamed' foxes also display neotenic (childish) characters. Bigger eyes (or smaller jaw), curly tail, puffy fur, smaller limbs, very similar to pet dogs and the researchers explain that a lack of testosterone slows down the fox development.<br />I think that's pretty much a good proof for what Peter says here.Ben10noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-75398038562032388772010-11-09T23:39:05.835-05:002010-11-09T23:39:05.835-05:00Peter, just wanted to comment that I love your blo...Peter, just wanted to comment that I love your blog. Every post you add is very high quality and interesting to read.<br />(signed: Just a random uneducated internet user) :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-27022556631744620352010-11-06T12:32:03.591-04:002010-11-06T12:32:03.591-04:00This is related to your article ... the search &qu...This is related to your article ... the search "Why are blacks so loud" gets results even on <a href="http://blekko.com/ws/why+are+blacks+so+loud%22" rel="nofollow">Blekko</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-64048335500793940612010-11-06T12:10:27.893-04:002010-11-06T12:10:27.893-04:00In such societies, it is in a man’s reproductive i...<i><br />In such societies, it is in a man’s reproductive interest to mate with as many women as possible. The result? A ‘tragedy of the commons’ where the pursuit of self-interest ends up harming society as a whole.<br /></i><br /><br />Uh oh, you called women a commons. The feminists will not like that. Take cover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com