Human Diversity: rework sex d's, farmer/forager, smart coalitions

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- 1. need to clearly define before casually using later: "cognitive repetioires", "egalitarian", "renormalized", "human _bio_-diversity"
+ 1. need to clearly define before casually using later:  "egalitarian", "renormalized", "human _bio_-diversity"
  
-_cognitive repetioires_—the phrase being Murray's device for shaving nine syllables off "personality, abilities, and social behavior"
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-3. Loury—
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-https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSz8SrKFfW7fJK2wN/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling
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-As economist Glenn C. Loury points out in _The Anatomy of Racial Inequality_, cognitive abilities decline with age, and yet we don't see a moral panic about the consequences of an aging workforce, because older people are construed as an "us"—our mothers and fathers—rather than an outgroup.
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- 9. mention "Coming Apart" thesis
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- 14. individual-level differences are less threatening because people don't perceive them as forming a coalition (Murray disagrees with this!)
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  4. * Embryo selection looks _really important_—and the recent Dawkins brouhaha says we can't even talk about that; and the ways I'm worried about eugenics being misused aren't even on the radar
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  6. I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point)—and finish
 
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- 7. more examples of sex difference effect sizes, elaborate on "big" doesn't mean anything
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- 8. tie into farmer/forager
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  10. Jensen sources of variation