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To: Retired Greyhound
A evolutionary psychologist? In other words a psychologist who thinks he knows and understands Biology and evolution.

Humans are a very young and a very homogeneous population. If there were a gene that unambiguously conferred greater intelligence without any associated cost, why would it not reach 100% penetrance in the population?

Typical Brit “Shakespeare didn't write any plays because he was a bloody commoner” elitism as well.

In Societies with entrenched social stratification there is little upward mobility and a great tendency to justify this based upon anything and everything. Here in the U.S.A. the ‘lower classes’ produce hard working and highly intelligent individuals who become billionaires.

15 posted on 05/22/2008 3:19:52 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: allmendream
"In Societies with entrenched social stratification there is little upward mobility and a great tendency to justify this based upon anything and everything."

"He said: "That is why such obvious scientific truths have not so far been stated clearly, or have actually been denied."

"(This theory is] accepted among those who know and understand the research."

26 posted on 05/22/2008 3:28:41 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: allmendream

I have a theory that IQ depends on if a mother holds her baby facing her so she can look in the baby’s eyes when she talks to him; or, if she holds her baby facing outward and never makes eye contact with him.


48 posted on 05/22/2008 3:43:47 PM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." - Barack Hussein Obama)
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