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The Framingham study is a good study for what it is about (risk factors for heart disease), but the study is probably inadequate for studying general selection pressure on the whole human population.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

The key quotations in the article are

Douglas Ewbank, "Those changes we predict for 2409 could be wiped out by something as simple as a new school-lunch program."

Steve Jones, "Uniquely in the living world, what makes humans what we are is in our minds, in our society, and not in our evolution."

parent tokenadult 17 years ago

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