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NarcissusSavage
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21 Feb 2012, 6:05 pm

Tollorin wrote:
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Neandertal genes who have "survived" are completely scattered through the population by now anyway.


Not so. Assortative mating has kept them together, and especially the traits that relate to assortative mating, communication and social behavior.

Basically you say that assotative mating kept a bunch of various genes together on human population for THIRTHY THOUSANDS YEARS!! !! !!


Not completely together, but together at a higher rate than apart. That would be the explanation for correlation of similar conditions have higher instances of occurring together. This is not a concrete "They are together, and only together" kind of claim, simply that assortative mating "tends" to keep them bunched up. There is obviously a spectrum of neurodiversity, and no one is identical to another. That alone suggests that this is true, as, if there was no correlation between conditions existing together, then we could say the genes were evenly distributed.


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29 Feb 2012, 5:22 pm

rdos wrote:
...Assortative mating has kept them together, and especially the traits that relate to assortative mating, communication and social behavior. That's why practically all neurodiversity traits are correlated, and the only way you can explain such a correlation is if those traits have a common origin in another species. It is also why many neuropsychiatric "disorders" that build up neurodiversity are correlated, and why ASDs have genetic correlations on all chromosomes.


"ASDs have genetic correlations on all chromosomes" Just ASDs and chromosomes? What about genes on different chromosomes being correlated? And if yes what would (or should) a geneticist or biologist say about the probability that such is evidence of a/some defect(s)? Another reason they should be raisin' hell?


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