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Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006) by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:06PM (#15962288)
> for at least hundreds of thousands of years, to which they were extremely well adapted adapted evolutionarily.

Hundreds of thousands of years is not a really long time in evolutionary terms, and evolution doesn't necessarily, even given a long time, get out of a good-enough local optimum to “extremely well adapted”.

It's also debatable whether conditions in which humans evolved are really a steady state.

More to the point, humans being ideal for the conditions—what the argument from evolution suggests—is not the same as the conditions being ideal for humans.

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Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006) by BurningFrog on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:58PM (#15967153)
I thought about responding to these critics, but they don't really say much beyond "you never know!"/"don't be too sure!", so I'll leave things as is.
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