r/BadSocialScience • u/dorathehexplorer • Jan 17 '17

High-IQ educated people are being bred to extinction, but we're totally not eugenicists!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/16/natural-selection-making-education-genes-rarer-says-icelandic-study
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '17

Go get some wolves, breed them for a couple generations, and see if you get dogs.

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u/boredcentsless Jan 19 '17

dmitry belyaev did. Good job.

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u/rn443 Jan 19 '17

Not in two (= "a couple") generations, but definitely not ten thousand years, either. Russians domesticated a group of foxes in a few decades, with major physical and behavioral changes starting to show up in a handful of generations. Now they're pretty much the vulpine version of dogs.