Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Bret Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If a population of noseless people evolves, then having a nose becomes highly heritable.
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That's a problem.
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It contravenes our understanding of heritable because when Darwin used the term or when people hear the term, what they think it means is that the genes encode the thing.
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Right, but that is not what it means at all.
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So let me give you an example.
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Let's say that we have an island somewhere.
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in which you have people and you have house cats.
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And let's say that for whatever reason, the people on this island decide that the black house cats have to be kept in the dark for the first year of their life.
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Okay, so all black house cats are kept in the dark for the first year of their life, and then they're released.
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They will have profound deficits in their capability of visual perception.
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They won't be able to see, they'll be bumping into stuff, they will have no idea what the world around them means and they will be thoroughly dependent on charity.
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If you measure
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They're
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Visual deficit.
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you will find it highly heritable.
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And you will think, oh.
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They've got bad genes for vision.
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No, they've got genes for a coat color that causes a developmental environment to be radically altered.
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That's what they have.
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That's why it shows up as heritable.
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