Interesting Links for 06-12-2016

[andrewducker]

Please stop saying people don’t vote against their economic interests. They do it quite deliberately, all the time.

(tags: politics economics )

Government memo demanding end to Brexit leaks is leaked

(tags: uk europe government leaks funny )

Ex-marine smashes record by running and climbing 24 Munros in under 24 hours

(tags: mountains scotland )

After seven years, The Last Guardian frustrates as much as it delights

(tags: games )

How I Wrote "Arrival" (and What I Learned Doing It)

(tags: movies writing scifi )

Caesarean births affecting human evolution

(tags: caesarians evolution )

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

(tags: computers skills )

Momentum is tearing itself apart

(tags: politics uk labour )

Comments

Re: Correlation is not causation

[andrewducker]

You can totally have selection pressure which only affects a small proportion of the population, and will affect the evolution of just that proportion.

And evolution can absolutely work over only a couple of generations. It'll tend to work in small ways, but that doesn't prevent it from working, or from that being evolution.

And I suspect that both a professor of biology and the editors of the National Academy of Sciences understand that very well.

I agree that genetics are not going to be the only factor that affects head size of babies. But the article also says that.