Thank you so much for your responses and the reference. I’ve been wondering about this for a long time. I will follow-up w/reading.
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I’m not an archeologist and have no expertise on this topic. I find it fascinating though. As I understand it all Native American populations are believed to have descended from one founding population, or maybe that’s now open to debate (don’t pounce on me please; I don’t know enough to have an opinion). I’ve also read, however, that Native American languages, as a group are among the
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Question (you didn’t link to the article): What is “the right time of day” for drinking coffee? I’m certainly enjoying mine this morning.
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While human beings are generally more inclined to breed with more “attractive” partners, whether the attraction is financial, physical or a matter of power, it’s certainly not merely a matter of chemicals and waist to hip ratio. It’s always been possible to get the best of all worlds if one is willing to discretely bend the rules of monogamy anyway, and many have. It’s been estimated th
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I think you are the one conflating things Tevai. In a previous post you agree that you think intelligence “IS ” at least partly racial and then switch to the term “ethnic group” to describe your alleged smartest Ashkenazis. I don’t care which terms, race or ethnicity, you use, though I’m sure socialogists ascribe distinct definitions. The pertinent fact is that race and ethnicity are
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Uhmmm ... you just argued that the alleged fact that Ashkenazi Jews deliberately bred for intelligence contributes to the fact that they have “the highest IQs in th world.” I think your definition of “race,” is overly broad and color based and does not detract from my argument and complaint in any material way, regardless of the fact that there are many different shades of Jews, something
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Why does this particular topic, i.e: the intelligence of those with Jewish ancestry, or a particular type of Jewish ancestry compared to that of the rest of humanity, come up so often here? Doesn’t it strike anyone else as racsist and inappropriate? If this same conversation were about Asian intelligence v. Caucasian intelligence or African intelligence I think this board would be in an uproar.
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