There is more room at the top for every human trait: push selection harder in any direction and the mean would move, at some cost elsewhere.

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• A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human. SCSean Carroll22 Apr 2024evolutionary biology
• A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait. DRDavid Reich8 May 2026evolutionary biology
• Competition is not the rule among animals or among humans; among animals it is limited to exceptional periods PKPeter Kropotkinc. 1890–1902evolutionary biology
• Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another. MNMartin Nowak8 Dec 2006evolutionary biology
• Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them. LSLyman Stone15 Jul 2025evolutionary biology

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