] FEEL CERTAIN I HAVE HAD FAR MORE EXPERIENCE WITH PSYCHIATRISTS THAN PETER HAS. AMI A “LAY PERSON”? WHO KNOWS? IF ALL NON-PSYCHIATRISTS ARE LAY PEOPLE THEN PSYCHIATRISTS ARE MERELY PUFFING THEMSELVES UP AND ROPING THEMSELVES OFF, SOMETHING THEY HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE THE TIME OF FREUD. NOT REALLY—THIS IS A FAMOUS JOKE OF EINSTEIN’S BUT, HEY, WHO’SE COUNTING? TRUMP AS AN ORGANISM—AS SEEN BY A “LAY PERSON” STRONGLY BIASED TOWARD CLOSE FAMILY STRONGLY BIASED AGAINST DISTANT RELATIVES—A RACIST OF THE FIRST RANK EXTREME NARCISSIST A STRATEGY OF RANDOM MOVES—TO FOOL OTHERS? AND/OR KEEP ATTENTION PERPETUALLY FOCUSED ON HIM?—INCREDIBLE HOW HE WILL GO AGAINST THE NRA ONE DAY AND INVITE IN THEIR LEADERS THE FOLLOWING DAY LYING CONTINUOUSLY--VERY CREATIVE AND OBSTINATE—PRODUCING AN ENTIRE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, PERMITTING HIM TO REVERSE COURSE AND COVER TRACKS AT THE SAME TIME Minor matters: Peter points out that Mealy (1995) was the first reference he knows of on psychopathy being under frequency dependent selection. An earlier paper, cited in the one | attached, developed the same argument—Harpending and Sobus 1987. Peter characterizes sickle cell anemia as a “crude adaptation to malaria”. Crude? In what sense? A single copy of the sickle gene gives you anemia, in which the normal shape of the red blood cell—a flat round pill—changes under low oxygen tension into a sickle shape which crushes the malarial Plasmodium inside it. The low oxygen tension is caused by the parasite itself, since it consumes oxygen in the red blood cell. The cell then quickly flips back into normal shape as the oxygen tension returns to normal levels. A sickle individual without malaria suffers no cost at all, since all red blood cells have oxygen tension well above the level that would cause sickling. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029159