Yeah, separate from both the proposal at top of this thread and GeneSmith’s proposal, there’s also the “make the median human genome” proposal—the idea being that, if most of the variance in human intelligence is due to mutational load (i.e. lots of individually-rare mutations which are nearly-all slightly detrimental), then a median human genome should result in very high intelligence. The big question there is whether the “mutational load” model is basically correct.
Yeah, separate from both the proposal at top of this thread and GeneSmith’s proposal, there’s also the “make the median human genome” proposal—the idea being that, if most of the variance in human intelligence is due to mutational load (i.e. lots of individually-rare mutations which are nearly-all slightly detrimental), then a median human genome should result in very high intelligence. The big question there is whether the “mutational load” model is basically correct.