Posted on 04/24/2016 9:05:52 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A few years ago, two economics professors, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, published a paper, “The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development,” that drew inferences about poverty and genetics based on a statistical pattern.
The world’s most genetically diverse countries (using their measure of what counts as genetically diverse) are in sub-Saharan Africa, which is the world’s poorest region. The least genetically diverse countries are in places like Bolivia, which have low incomes but not as low as in that region of Africa. There’s an intermediate level of genetic diversity among the residents of the middle-income and rich countries in Asia, Europe and North America.
Genetic diversity arises from migratory distance of populations from East Africa. Countries in east Africa have the highest genetic diversity because this is where humans evolved. Populations that settled in other parts of the world descend from various subgroups of people who left Africa at different times. Thus, these groups are less varied in their genetic profiles.
Ashraf and Galor put this together and argued that this is “reflecting the trade-off between the beneficial and the detrimental effects of diversity on productivity.” Their argument was that a little bit of genetic diversity is a good thing because “a wider spectrum of traits is more likely to be complementary to the development and successful implementation of advanced technological paradigms,” but if a country is too genetically diverse, its economy will suffer from “reduced cooperation and efficiency.” Thus, they wrote, “the high degree of diversity among African populations and the low degree of diversity among Native American populations have been a detrimental force in the development of those regions.”
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Diversity nonsense.
It’s obviously racism, low taxes and lack of gay marriage.
/sarc(????)
Dictators and godlessness? Just possibly?
Next question:
Intelligence gap.
.
Corruption, welfare states and nobody wants to work?
Just my guess
Africa is rich in natural resources but the corrupt few partake in the wealth
Is this a trick question?
The lions got all the slow ones. The smart ones were eaten by those that couldn’t hunt.
Let’s start with sub-Saharan architecture - huts made from sticks and mud similar to what a beaver can build.
Genetics governs the outcome in a society?
The Nazis beat these clowns to it almost 100 years ago.
I’m certain that just like here, all of their unjust problems are due to oppression by straight white males.
/s
Culture. Culture. Culture. In this case, many that belong confined to a petri dish.
Walks over to a rock and places hand over it, says "see my hand? I want you to make a fist and smash my hand, as hard as you can"
“Corrupt government and government employees and continued civil wars.”
Well, we have that here too. Maybe because they keep blaming the white man for their problems..
Period.
And I laughed at their arguments then as now ...
Because whitey takes all their money, enslaves them, prevents them from learning how to read, rapes their women, keeps them from buying books and refuses to give them free wifi.
PC enough?
You mock Damballa at your own risk.
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