I am aware of the fact that MBTI best matches or anything along those lines is not entirely accurate and nowhere near deterministic - Anyone can in fact go well with anyone if they have shared experience and interests, and people are far more than 4 letters.

I still think that despite this there would be general correlations as to how types match with each other.

The following list is a collection of my personal experience with how type dynamics play out irl and and also looking at the most common pairings I found looking into the posts on this sub:

xNxx - perceiving function dominant

ENFP - INTJ

ENTP - INFJ

xNxx - judging function dominant

ENTJ - INTP

ENFJ - INFP

xSxP -

ESFP - ISTP

ESTP - ISFP

xSxJ -

ESFJ - ISTJ

ESTJ - ISFJ

This is less of a 'perfect match' list, but more of a list of pairings I have seen consistently both irl and online.

The interesting thing is that if you were to look into to the pairing you see a pattern. The types share their N/S axis and may or may not share their J/P axis. The inuiting dominant types simply share the N/S axis. The intuiting aux types share the N/S axis and also the T/F axis to possibly stabilise the relationship as intuiting is a trait further down though shared.

The SP types share Se

and The SJ types share Si

It seems people generally like to be in company of someone who shares their way of perceiving the world but are different everywhere else, maybe a sort of similar enough to share some common ground but different enough to maybe find some kind of mystique or something novel in the opposite person. It could also be something like coming to the same result by two different paths scenario

What do you think? have you seen these pairings anywhere before? do you think this is an imagined pattern or maybe interesting enough for me to make a slideshow of it?

So after around 50kya and the surrounding time range cave paintings seemed to have exploded both in quantity and complexity. People have used this as argument of some final stage in human evolution, when we finally became what we are today almost like an exact date. But recently I came across this idea of a preservation bias - That, Ice Age Africa was far worse in preserving cave paintings being very tropical, humid and higher prevalence of microbial activity on the paintings than Ice Age Europe and other regions. Is this true, I know nothing about this topic but its seems interesting. If so could the artistic capabilities precede 45kya?

So by 'set baseline', I mean the range of natural variation in the region varying outside of which is unlikely. The SLC gene variants explain a good portion of the continental difference but do they set the baseline? I have a few conflicting studies here. There's this general statistic that up to 45% of the continental difference between Africa and Europe can be explained by the top Loci but The evolution of skin pigmentation-associated variation in West Eurasia shows that the polygenic selection signal in west Eurasia is mostly 'restricted to the top loci'. So what's going on, what explains the other half of it?