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There's a lot of evidence to suggest most of her research was fraudulent
I wonder how much of it was just a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans situation
That's why it's never been done again. Because it was never done in the first place.
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It doesn't need to be sustained, the whole point is that eventually when the next generation ages up, the number of old people won't be as high.
However, in the intermediate stage, you are desperately short of working-age people to help support the massive aging population. This isn't a theoretical - most of Western Europe has been in this boat for a long time, and relies heavily on immigration to fill the labour gap (despite however much political posturing about wanting to restrict immigration) If we do this on a global scale, there is nowhere to draw immig…
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holy racist dogwhistle, batman. chimpanzees are animals, and the only people who think differently are the straw men in the imaginations of people I prefer not to spend time talking to.
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> Unfortunately, we will return to that level. Then 25 years later, we'll be only half that number (or worse). What are your main reasons for thinking that?
There is a very simple metric, called "fertility rate". It is the average number of children born per woman over her entire lifetime. Since the male/female ratio in humans is nearly 1:1, she has to have 2 children (one to replace herself, one for the corresponding man) plus a tiny bit of extra... usually said to be about 2.1 children. If she has fewer than that, population is shrinking, each generation is smaller tha…
Don’t you think it’s likely more of a pendulum? Maybe the equilibrium is 5-7 billion, and there are times when people have more kids, and times of fewer. Even if we drop to 3 billion, the world would find ways to go on, likely implementing policies that make big families more favorable again.
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If the only argument behind why Europe should exist is that you don't like people who look like the people from Sudan or India, then maybe it shouldn't. (If you instead want to claim that you're not trying to talk about ethnicity and are instead talking about economies or whatever, consider whether the ancestors you mention drawing those imaginary lines over places like Sudan and India were motivated by their desire…
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The gap between us and the chimpanzees is, at the same time, "tantalizingly small" and "too big". We have learnt to communicate with them, but they also don't seem to ask questions, at least not the way that humans do. There is obvious intelligence in their eyes and deliberation in their movements, but they seem to be content with an almost static culture. Which was also true for the Neanderthals. What was the last s…
You will find a similar gap between some humans. Just saying.