David Reich vindicates Cochran & Harpending's "10,000 Year Explosion"

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DNA scans of 8,433 ancient West Eurasians from the last 14,000 years finds there has been a lot of evolution since the Ice Age, including for IQ.​



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Civilization civilizes, but the process is evolutionary and requires several thousand years. For the sake of this discussion, I am defining a civilization as a city based society, where the government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

In a civilization intelligent men usually become more prosperous than unintelligent men. Until recently they had more children who survived and reproduced.

In a civilization most criminals were killed at the scene of the crime, they died in custody, or they were executed. There was no effort at rehabilitation. It never has been reliable. The few children some criminals had rarely lived to adulthood.

While this was happening in the tribal environment of sub Saharan Africa all men fought in the inter tribal wars. The best warriors had sexual access to the most women. Consequently, they had the most sons who inherited their violent inclinations and aptitudes.

Men were expected to avenge wrongs done to them, their relatives, and their friends. Women declined to become involved with men who failed to do this.

This explains why whites and Orientals are usually intelligent and law abiding. It explains why most Negroes are less intelligent, and frequently have characteristics that earn felony convictions for them in civilized countries.
 

DNA scans of 8,433 ancient West Eurasians from the last 14,000 years finds there has been a lot of evolution since the Ice Age, including for IQ.​



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Civilization civilizes, but the process is evolutionary and requires several thousand years. For the sake of this discussion, I am defining a civilization as a city based society, where the government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

In a civilization intelligent men usually become more prosperous than unintelligent men. Until recently they had more children who survived and reproduced.

In a civilization most criminals were killed at the scene of the crime, they died in custody, or they were executed. There was no effort at rehabilitation. It never has been reliable. The few children some criminals had rarely lived to adulthood.

While this was happening in the tribal environment of sub Saharan Africa all men fought in the inter tribal wars. The best warriors had sexual access to the most women. Consequently, they had the most sons who inherited their violent inclinations and aptitudes.

Men were expected to avenge wrongs done to them, their relatives, and their friends. Women declined to become involved with men who failed to do this.

This explains why whites and Orientals are usually intelligent and law abiding. It explains why most Negroes are less intelligent, and frequently have characteristics that earn felony convictions for them in civilized countries.
There is no gene or combination of genes yet discovered that predisposes people to violence.

Much of this treatise depends on genetic purity.... which is in and of itself a myth.

Superior intelligence is a product of superior nurturing. For instance Jewish households for centuries have highlighted the importance of self-sufficiency in the upbringing of the children from a very early age.... Orientals have a similar construct.
 
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There is no gene or combination of genes yet discovered that predisposes people to violence.
BBC

Two genes linked with violent crime. October 28, 2014​


By Melissa Hogenboom
Science reporter, BBC News

A genetic analysis of almost 900 offenders in Finland has revealed two genes associated with violent crime.
Those with the genes were 13 times more likely to have a history of repeated violent behaviour.
The authors of the study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, external, said at least 5-10% of all violent crime in Finland could be attributed to individuals with these genotypes.

 
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Superior intelligence is a product of superior nurturing. For instance Jewish households for centuries have highlighted the importance of self-sufficiency in the upbringing of the children from a very early age.... Orientals have a similar construct.


IQ and Human Intelligence

-Intelligence has high heritability, meaning it is highly genetic. We know this because identical twins in the USA, Europe, Japan or India tend to have the same intelligence, even if each twin is twin is raised in two different household. The correlation (on a scale of 0 to 1) of adult intelligence between identical twins raised apart is about 0.85.
-On the other hand, the intelligence correlation between two adults of DIFFERENT biological parents and raised in the SAME household approaches ZERO in adulthood1.

 
IQ and Human Intelligence

-Intelligence has high heritability, meaning it is highly genetic. We know this because identical twins in the USA, Europe, Japan or India tend to have the same intelligence, even if each twin is twin is raised in two different household. The correlation (on a scale of 0 to 1) of adult intelligence between identical twins raised apart is about 0.85.
-On the other hand, the intelligence correlation between two adults of DIFFERENT biological parents and raised in the SAME household approaches ZERO in adulthood1.


There is a science to phrenology as much as people hate to admit it. It is frighteningly accurate and one of the reasons it was discarded .
 

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