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Human Evolution Seems to Be Accelerating (Jews evolved from "financing!")
AP via Fox News ^ | 12-11-07

Posted on 12/11/2007 8:28:45 AM PST by squireofgothos

above-average intelligence in Ashkenazi Jews — those of northern European heritage — resulted from natural selection in medieval Europe, where they were pressured into jobs as financiers, traders, managers and tax collectors.

Those who were smarter succeeded, grew wealthy and had bigger families to pass on their genes, they suggested. That evolution also is linked to genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher in Jews.

The new study was funded by the Department of Energy, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the Unz Foundation, the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ashkenazi; ashkenazim; evolution; genes; genetics; godsgravesglyphs; jews; macroevolution; naturalselection; oy; race; racerelations; races; racial; racism; racist; racists
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To: squireofgothos; All

Can someone please offer a logical explanation as to why government - and multiple government agencies at that - should be funding a study such as this with no apparent or meaningful goal?


61 posted on 12/11/2007 10:06:15 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: wideawake

On their way, and the result of artificial breeding.

In the wild, I would assume that Chihuahuas and Great Danes would not interbreed.

Would you assume otherwise?


62 posted on 12/11/2007 10:06:18 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: wideawake
And Chihuahuas and Great Danes are also different species too.

LOL, IIRC, didn't someone post a picture of a puppy which was half-Chihuahua and half-Great Dane, about a month ago?

63 posted on 12/11/2007 10:07:21 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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To: From many - one.
That’s plain, garden variety evolution.

What, are you accusing me of something?

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64 posted on 12/11/2007 10:08:16 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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To: wideawake
Chihuahuas and Great Danes are also different species

Well, there are definite challenges to breeding successfully...

One of the funniest things I ever saw was a neighbor's Dachshund attempting to impregnate our (rather large) Rottie.

65 posted on 12/11/2007 10:09:29 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: squireofgothos
Humans Are Still Evolving - And It's Happening Faster Than Ever
66 posted on 12/11/2007 10:09:34 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Verginius Rufus
So are Jews today with the surname Kagan descended from the Khazars, and the rest from the ancient Israelites?

No. Kagan is the Russian pronunciation of the Hebrew word Cohen (priest). Russians always turn an "h" into a "g." It is also the Russian pronunciation of the Turkic word Khan. The Khazar word Kagan is the same as Khan, as in Ghengis Khan.

The Hebrew word Cohen, the Turkic word Khan and the Hawaiian word Kahuna probably all come from the same prehistoric root, along with the English word King.

67 posted on 12/11/2007 10:10:16 AM PST by Inyokern
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To: Sherman Logan

“Those who were smarter succeeded, grew wealthy and had bigger families to pass on their genes, they suggested.”

I don’t believe any of this study. I’ve been to my son’s basketball games and to my son’s chess tournaments. The pretty girls lined up to hug the boys at the end of which event? Any guesses?


68 posted on 12/11/2007 10:11:09 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: Sherman Logan

“A more likely explanation is that the type of intelligence that Ashkenazi Jews developed due to evolutionary pressures during medieval and early modern periods just happens to be a type that fits in very well with success in the modern world.”

If it is an evolutionary advantage then they would out populate the rest of us. Seems to me there are more rednecks than Ashkenazi Jews. So are we to assume being redneck is an evolutionary advantage?


69 posted on 12/11/2007 10:18:10 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: live+let_live
The pretty girls lined up to hug the boys at the end of which event?

In traditional societies the preference of the young woman is generally irrelevant.

Besides as far, as I'm aware basketball wasn't big in the shtetl.

70 posted on 12/11/2007 10:19:31 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: live+let_live

I think you will agree that Askenazi Jews are on average more successful in the modern world than rednecks.

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, they are reproducing at an even lower rate than other successful Americans, besides interbreeding at a very high rate, with the children seldom identifying as Jews. In a few generations there will be very few American Jews, if present trends continue.

In the modern world, financial success is actually an evolutionary disadvantage. Strange but true.


71 posted on 12/11/2007 10:22:34 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: live+let_live
If it is an evolutionary advantage then they would out populate the rest of us. Seems to me there are more rednecks than Ashkenazi Jews. So are we to assume being redneck is an evolutionary advantage?

Well, no, since rednecks (to my knowledge at least) haven't endured 1500 years of pogroms, topped off with a Holocaust.

72 posted on 12/11/2007 10:24:46 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Well, both sides in the Civil War did sustain a high number of redneck casualties - including a large cohort of rednecks who had yet to reproduce.
73 posted on 12/11/2007 10:28:14 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: Sherman Logan

“In the modern world, financial success is actually an evolutionary disadvantage. Strange but true.”

I absolutely agree. (Though I’m disappointed that being a redneck doesn’t give me an evolutionary advantage)

I think calling someone who makes a lot of money but makes few babies successful is a poor use of the word successful. I’d call him a biological failure.

In East St. Louis, maybe 10 years ago, there was a drug dealer who would give drugs to the young girls in exchange for sex. He died of AIDS in his late 20’s but not before fathering 20-30 kids. In biology class that would be called successful.


74 posted on 12/11/2007 10:30:52 AM PST by live+let_live
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To: wideawake
The border, obviously, is the point where members of what was formerly one species are no longer able to successfully interbreed due to mutation. Mulism.

This is hardly an invention of creationists, but an internal assumption of evolutionism.

And internal assumption? No, it is an easily observable fact.

Google "ring species" and see for yourself:

Ring species provide unusual and valuable situations in which we can observe two species and the intermediate forms connecting them. In a ring species:

A ring species, therefore, is a ring of populations in which there is only one place where two distinct species meet. Ernst Mayr called ring species "the perfect demonstration of speciation" because they show a range of intermediate forms between two species. They allow us to use variation in space to infer how changes occurred over time. This approach is especially powerful when we can reconstruct the biogeographical history of a ring species, as has been done in two cases. Source


75 posted on 12/11/2007 10:31:21 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Don’t forget the largely Scots-Irish origins of the Americans who are often called rednecks. They spent centuries fighting the English in Scotland and the old-stock Irish in Northern Ireland. They may have perpetrated a few massacres, but they were victims as well. Their ranks were thinned as a result of the religious and dynastic wars in the British Isles in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Highland Clearances caused many Scots to starve or emigrate. The Scots-Irish were also lesser victims of the Anglican Ascendancy in Ireland, even though their immigration from Scotland had originally been encouraged to provide the English crown with manpower to fight the Irish Catholics. Many Scots and Scots-Irish were indentured servants in America and the West Indies, and were often treated worse than black slaves. Of course, they never suffered pogroms or a Holocaust, but their history was nonetheless far more tragic than what the English, French, and Spanish had experienced in the century before their immigration to the New World.
76 posted on 12/11/2007 10:42:49 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Should I be?


77 posted on 12/11/2007 10:47:39 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: blam

related:

Rapid Acceleration in Human Evolution Described
Reuters | Dec 10, 2007 | Will Dunham
Posted on 12/11/2007 3:34:37 AM EST by anymouse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937741/posts


78 posted on 12/11/2007 10:47:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, December 10, 2007____________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Alouette
If Ashkenazi Jews have such superior intelligence, how does that explain the retards running the Israeli government?

LOL! Too true, too true!

79 posted on 12/11/2007 10:50:00 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ( . . . Vayo'mer "'Ani Yosef 'achiykhem 'asher-mekhartem 'oti Mitzraymah.")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Actually, I'm quite big into the human soul. I also know that the human soul doesn't have anything to do with the genetics that determine our physical and related traits. After all, we KNOW from experience that there are some people who are just plain smarter than others. This doesn't mean that they have "better" or "bigger" souls than the other, however. Our soul is immaterial. Intelligence IS biochemical and physiological, as well as being partially environmental. Intelligence doesn't equal "the soul", however.

Since an operation on the brain can completely change a person's personality (not his intelligence, but his entire personality), then all good proponents of reductionistic science should deny the existence of a spiritual soul as being pre-modern superstition.

80 posted on 12/11/2007 10:52:13 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ( . . . Vayo'mer "'Ani Yosef 'achiykhem 'asher-mekhartem 'oti Mitzraymah.")
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