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    Default Re: Eugenics: Counter Argument to Inbreeding causing low IQ

    Quote Originally Posted by CrossLOPER View Post
    No it does not. At most, you have described a very weak case of natural selection.
    Feel free to add to the list of stuff that is happening then.

    edit: and why link to an wiki article on Genetic Drift? To show it plays no role in current evolution?
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    Default Re: Eugenics: Counter Argument to Inbreeding causing low IQ

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    Feel free to add to the list of stuff that is happening then.

    edit: and why link to an wiki article on Genetic Drift? To show it plays no role in current evolution?
    I think you overestimated the effects of what has only been occurring for a little more than a century. A century is nothing.
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    Default Re: Eugenics: Counter Argument to Inbreeding causing low IQ

    Quote Originally Posted by CrossLOPER View Post
    I think you overestimated the effects of what has only been occurring for a little more than a century. A century is nothing.
    I have not estimated any effect apart from saying that evolution is still happening as we do not control everything. Are you suggesting that the mechanics of evolution no longer does anything for humans?
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    Default Re: Eugenics: Counter Argument to Inbreeding causing low IQ

    Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
    I have not estimated any effect apart from saying that evolution is still happening as we do not control everything. Are you suggesting that the mechanics of evolution no longer does anything for humans?
    I think I understood what you wrote apart from the way you intended.
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