Peter Frost

Anthropologist, currently interested in the puzzle of European hair, eye, and skin color.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@DIAS The prospect of extinction is rather terrifying, at least from my perspective.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@KirkegaardEmil Female fertility is lower in polygynous marriages than in monogamous marriages.
https://t.co/y3rL0OTYQx

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@akarlin They are coming because they believe that the Spanish government is no longer enforcing its immigration laws and regulations. https://t.co/z3U0XYnRbJ

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

Until recently, it was thought that human evolution had essentially stopped in the Paleolithic, especially for complex traits like intelligence. Did any early evolutionary thinkers anticipate the current findings from ancient DNA and polygenic scores? https://t.co/U5FUEE09IV

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@HowardTl42355 Any large-scale study would be helpful. I'm not surprised that gay sons are more likely to have older brothers (who might bring the pathogen into the household through sexual or nonsexual contact).

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

All sexually transmitted parasites are being selected for the ability to manipulate host behavior. Because their success depends on how often and with whom their host has sex, even a slight behavioral change may help them spread to other individuals. https://t.co/i6PF33mcDe

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@HowardTl42355 I would say the same pathogen. That would be the least complicated explanation. Alternatively, there could be two pathogens that work together as commensals.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@HowardTl42355 Toxoplasma gondii seems to masculinize men physically, emotionally, and behaviorally, thus increasing the number of women they have sex with.

On the other hand, it's possible that a variant of T. gondii alters sexual orientation.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@Jax_309ad @SilverVVulpes @PumpkinPerson2 @TeaGeeGeePea @gcochran99 @whyvert @nathancofnas @Steve_Sailer @LionBlogosphere @UBERSOY1 @hbdchick @RoyAFrye1 @KirkegaardEmil @hsu_steve @Evolutionistrue The distinction between "race" and "species" is ultimately arbitrary, like the distinction between "dialect" and "language."

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@HowardTl42355 Behavior manipulation doesn't even require thousands of years of evolution. It's the parasite that is evolving to manipulate human behavior, so the time constraint is determined by the rate at which the parasite evolves over time.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

Erratum: In my last tweet I wrote: "Quebec will hold a referendum on independence in October."
I should have written: "The Parti Québécois will win the next provincial election in October and hold a referendum on independence in the next four years."

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@SusanneAydinlik Actually, that is what many researchers thought, i.e., farming selected for cognitive ability; therefore, farmers must have had higher scores for EDU IQ.

The picture now seems less simple. Farmers received a cognitive boost through admixture from certain hunter-gatherer groups.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

In early Europe, cognitive evolution took off when native hunter-gatherers were replaced by Middle Eastern farmers. But then the latter were themselves largely replaced. A new look at cold winters theory. https://t.co/woRMQcFmVx

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@SusanneAydinlik You're treating "hunter-gatherers" as a homogeneous category. Cognitive ability was higher in northern hunter-gatherers (or rather hunter-fisher-sealers), as indicated by the derived COMT allele.

This allele spread from them to early farmers, not the reverse.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@bryan_caplan This sort of argument is manipulative. At first sight, it seems to be attacking the media for anti-white bias.

In reality, it's aimed at whites who think there is deliberate non-coverage of certain events by the media, such as the murder of Henry Nowak.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@Jax_309ad Multiculturalism works better when the overall level of social trust is low. A good example would be the Ottoman Empire. Each group essentially lived within its own "millet".

Even within the Muslim millet, there was considerable segregation by ethnicity.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@bryan_caplan Yes, they are now operating in a high-trust culture where the costs of business are much lower. People can be taken at their word, and they can be trusted to do what they say they will do.

Unfortunately, when the population changes, so does the culture.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@DavidePiffer This may tie in with the surge in European cognitive ability from 9,000 to 7,000 BP. Was it due solely to selection? Or were farmers admixing with northern hunter-gatherers as they moved farther into Europe?

There is also the high IQ of Finns — the second highest in Europe. Why?

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@DavidePiffer I won't accept your bet because the risk is in the range of 5 to 30%. So I would probably lose.

Nonetheless, there is a significant risk.

[Peter Frost @frost61h]

@DavidePiffer For some people — the ones you need to worry about — plagiarism, like pedophilia, is no big deal. Yet those same people may be deeply concerned about research on human differences.

This may seem hard to understand. Different people operate within different moral frameworks.