Kostas Kampourakis
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Kostas Kampourakis
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Author and editor of books intended to help non-experts understand science. Interested in anything about evolution, development, heredity and nature of science.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Doesn't this look like "purity" in modern terms?
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Why don't geneticists frame people's differences in relative terms - that some individuals have less diverse (most likely recent) ancestry than others? Imagine a journalist reading this in the abstract: "...10,000 single-origin individuals from 35 worldwide populations..."?
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Some scientists also think that historians do not know enough about the science to write about its history, which of course is not the case for good historians. Same for philosophers.
August 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
For an individual on average, or the average individual perhaps, but not for any two specific individuals. It is one thing to made a mathematical calculation and another to make sense of it.
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Indeed.
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My point was that I do not think we can make any legitimate inferences for individuals. Anyway, this may be of interest: plato.stanford.edu/entries/heri...
Heritability (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM