Thursday, November 28, 2013
Preventing White Genocide
Liberty GB giving up on "cultural nationalism." It's about time, I think. Video here.
Labels:
cultural nationalism,
demographics,
immigration,
Islam,
Liberty GB,
Weston
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Oxytocin Promotes Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is natural, and obviously adaptive. And here's a point: although EGI does not - repeat not - depend on mechanisms for the "evolution of ingroup altruism" and the like - it is still interesting that oxytocin has the function described, which is an evolved biological mechanism to promote ingroup solidarity.
More on Lewontin and Genetic Variation
With
respect to Lewontin’s well known “there is more genetic variation within groups
than between groups” we need to clarify whether the 85:15 split has any meaning
other than the fact that the bulk of human genetic variation is randomly
distributed.
Comparing
Danes vs. Nigerians: 85% variation within each group and 15% between. The same would be observed with Japanese vs.
Iranians.
What
if you considered a mixed group of Danes + Nigerians as a single population,
and the same for Japanese + Iranians? If
you then apportioned genetic variation between D+N vs. J+I you would still get
more variation within than between.
If
you went in the opposite direction, and considered Japanese from Tokyo as one
population and Japanese from Kyoto as another population, the same
within/between distinction would hold.
If you compared one Japanese family to another, you would also see more
genetic variation within the group (family) than between families.
As
has been pointed out previously by others, a significant amount of genetic
variation is found within single individuals; thus, if you were to compare one
Japanese individual to another,~ half the genetic variation would be found
within the single individual.
For any set of human groups, one would expect to find more genetic variation
within the group than between groups.
Hence,
the “within group” component of genetic variation is found within any defined
set of individuals, and is randomly distributed among individuals. It cannot be used to assert that members of
an ethny are more dissimilar than to other ethnies, nor can it be used as a
legitimate argument against the reality of genetically distinct population
groups.
And
this doesn’t even touch upon the fact that with respect to many phenotypically
relevant traits under selective pressure, racial differences in allele
frequency is so great that there is actually greater genetic variation between
compared to within groups.
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