Comments on: Genetic distance and economic development http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/03/02/genetic-distance-and-economic-development/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: Romain Wacziarg http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/03/02/genetic-distance-and-economic-development/#comment-2485 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:55:15 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1179#comment-2485 Thanks for providing such a balanced and thoughtful summary of our paper.

I agree with you that there are many unanswered questions about the mechanisms and about the ultimate root cause of differences in technological development.

]]> By: TGGP http://www.gnxp.com/new/2011/03/02/genetic-distance-and-economic-development/#comment-2445 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:05:23 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=1179#comment-2445 I didn’t read all of Ashraf & Galor, but their reason for expecting a “hump-shaped” relation between genetic diversity and economic development is because of the relation between diversity and productivity. But jumping from genetic diversity to productivity-relevant diversity seems to me like a claim in need of evidence. Genotypes are relevant because of phenotypes, so to check their model they should have looked for variation in phenotype explaining the correlation between genetic diversity and development.

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