This is bad. Fortunately, humanity is set to become more and more homogeneous as travel becomes cheaper and global communications increase--this is where some freepers go this: 
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Hey! Ya forgot the diamond cutters!
Life without milkshakes! Eat your wheat curds, my African FRiends. I will suck down another chocolate shake and my aryan tummy will digest it all! Lactase power!
I think what they were trying to say, in a particularly garbled way, is not that Jews in Europe got smarter, but that less smart Jews died off, raising the average and shortening the range.
Instead of 50-150 it would now be 75 to 150 because from 50 to 74’s died off disproportionately.
ZC this covers most of your baselines.
Fascinating theory! It wasn't 3 millenia of painstaking study of the Torah that drove "the evolution of Jewish intelligence": i.e. generations and generations of daughters of accomplished scholars marrying accomplished scholars - it was making change that did it.
And of course, they have IQ tests showing how much stupider the Prophets and Sages were back before the King of France ordered the Jews to take up tax-farming and smartened them up.
Mastering 15th century accounting is so much more difficult that mastering Gemara.
REAL/MACRO evolution means new kinds of organs and new kinds of capabilities. You got some sort of evidence of Jews with wings or anything like that?
In that case, we're obviously undergoing reverse evolution now. The more successful people are in today's world, the fewer children they have.
with 75% of them voting democratic every year, i wouldnt say they are all that smart.
They say Einstein couldn't balance his own checkbook and was a disaster with money. It didn't matter much. Silly article.
Well, that milk-drinking observation is bogus. All normal human beings can digest milk as infants. It’s only if they get weaned and then avoid milk for years that they lose the ability to digest it.
Asians and Africans who grow up in milk-drinking cultures can drink milk.
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Nearly Half Of Ashkenazi Jews Descended From Four 'Founding Mothers'
"ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2006) — Some 3.5 million or 40 percent of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from just four “founding mothers” who lived in Europe 1,000 years ago. The mothers were part of a small group who founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community, which was established in Europe as a result of migration from the Near East."
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?
Also through the centuries Jewish marriages have mostly been arranged marriages. So family A wants their smart and capable son to marry a similar girl from family B. The smart and capable married and bred with the smart and capable
This is bad. Fortunately, humanity is set to become more and more homogeneous as travel becomes cheaper and global communications increase--this is where some freepers go this: or this: .
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My Jewish ancesters smartly ran away from Stalin in 1920.
OK. I can disprove this whole study with one simple statement: Ehud Olmert’s parents are ashkenazi Jews and he is possibly the biggest moron on the planet. Case closed.