David Sun (@arcticinstincts) / X

David Sun

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David Sun

@arcticinstincts

Frolicmaxxing @Decreeink ex @UW Evolutionary researcher of ecological influences on personality & culture. Fresh POV gene memes. RT/likes/follows ≠ endorsement

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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 9, 2025
MEGATHREAD for POV genetic selection memes: Find all my POV posts collected here, updated daily. Eventually every gene will be memed w papers cited! Learn about the spiciest findings in archaeo/population genetics w the most unhinged memes! Bookmark for reference📑 🧵1/n )
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Oct 19, 2025
A supreme shape rotator can only rotate shapes, but a supreme wordcel can rotate shape rotators
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca
Oct 19, 2025
High IQ experts work for mid IQ generalists. What means?
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Mar 13, 2025
I was rejected from woke PhD programs for my "un-PC" idea: ancient migrations can shape culture & psychology. So I proved it alone. My new peer-reviewed @APA paper shows East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia ~20000 yrs ago❄️ 📖doi.org/10.1037/ebs000… How so?🧵👇
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 8, 2025
POV: It is 1100 A.D. on an Indonesian island. You are a Bajau sea nomad who freedives for seafood. Your spleen is 15% larger than other locals due to a mutation in PDE10A gene. You can store more haemoglobin rich blood, letting you breathhold & dive longer. Local girls notice how
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 10, 2025
POV: it is the year 19000 B.C. in Ice Age Siberia. You are a proto-East Asian with poor anger management & impulse control issues. You throw tantrums inside the small confined igloo, annoying & scaring everyone. Your protoABG gf & the tribe is tired of your shit and decided to
David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 10, 2025
UofChicago psychologist Dan Freedman found half a century ago that East Asian & Native American babies were calmer than Caucasian & African ones. This finding is consistent w my empirical analysis of Inuit/Polar worker data paper, neuroimaging scans, & Piffer's genomic studies.
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Oct 29, 2025
POV: It is 6000 B.C in San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina. You're the first native Argentinian w AS3MT gene mutation for resistance to Arsenic poisoning. Local girls notice your face isn't covered w poison lesions like other guys. You're about to experience natural selection 😍
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 9, 2025
POV: It is 3500 B.C. in NW Europe. You are a Ginger R1b proto-European in ancient Ireland. Unlike other guys, you have the MC1R gene mutation for red hair, freckles, & pale skin. Local girls find your red hair to be "exotic" & notice your legs aren't bowed like other guys. The
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Jul 8, 2025
Buddhists must remember the Buddha was a pampered prince who lived with a harem of 500 women from puberty to age 29. It is more likely he was just completely satiated with women and exhausted than being spiritually disciplined enough to “let go of desire”
cat ✩
@rs_parasite
Jul 8, 2025
desire is suffering dot jpg
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Oct 26, 2025
POV: The year is 19000 B.C. You are a proto-East Asian in Ice Age Siberia. The outdoor temperature is negative -80° C. However, unlike your igloo-mates, you do not have the ABCC11 rs17822931 gene mutation variant for no body odor. They are tired of your stinkiness and you are
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Oct 31, 2025
“We meet again, fellow Ancient Northern East Asian Yellow river farmer w minor austronesian admixture” “haiiii, it’s been 8000 years” “I see you still look exactly the same” “As do you” “You are still quite introverted” “Yes” “ … “
高市早苗
@takaichi_sanae
Oct 31, 2025
APEC首脳会議前に、控室で中国の習近平国家主席と挨拶を交わしました。
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 11, 2025
POV: It is 95000 B.C. in Africa. You are the first guy w tightly curled hair due to mutations in KRT74, TCHH, CUTC genes. You are better at dissipating head heat via evaporative cooling sweat, & more protected against solar radiation. You have less heat stroke & can hunt better
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 10, 2025
UofChicago psychologist Dan Freedman found half a century ago that East Asian & Native American babies were calmer than Caucasian & African ones. This finding is consistent w my empirical analysis of Inuit/Polar worker data paper, neuroimaging scans, & Piffer's genomic studies.
Holtz
@Biorealism
Nov 10, 2025
Replying to @UBERSOY1 @arcticinstincts and 11 others
Dan Freedman 'Ethnic Differences in Babies'.
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Nov 2, 2025
Did you know that 40% of all modern Chinese descend from 3 Neolithic “Super grandfathers”, likely kings or wealthy lords who controlled a resource surplus made possible by advent of agriculture.
Slumdog_Chillionaire
@SlumRNA_Dog
Nov 1, 2025
It’s so cool dogs have this if humans had this it would be like “this is the first Chinese guy” and Chinese people would revere him. “The first white man on earth.” “The original Mexican.” Black people would be like “oh you don’t know about ‘N166er Prime?’ Lol.”
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David Sun
@arcticinstincts
Oct 8, 2025
One of the wildest local genetic adaptation I've come across is in the people of San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina, who had selection for a variant of AS3MT gene that boosts resistance to arsenic poisoning due to living in a toxic environment for 11k years.
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