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 ...
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?
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?
LOL, IIRC, didn't someone post a picture of a puppy which was half-Chihuahua and half-Great Dane, about a month ago?
What, are you accusing me of something?
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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.
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.
“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?
“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?
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.
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.
Well, no, since rednecks (to my knowledge at least) haven't endured 1500 years of pogroms, topped off with a Holocaust.
“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.
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 of populations encircles an area of unsuitable habitat.
- At one location in the ring of populations, two distinct forms coexist without interbreeding, and hence are different species.
- Around the rest of the ring, the traits of one of these species change gradually, through intermediate populations, into the traits of the second 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
Should I be?
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
LOL! Too true, too true!
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.
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