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To: CobaltBlue
Fully realized. But this is the last part of our own evolutionary history we're not allowed to think about, much less study in detail.

There's nothing for it. It'll just have to await a time when people can look at it without hyperventilating.

88 posted on 06/17/2006 6:46:46 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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To: VadeRetro

I'm not in the field so don't know how hard it is to study this stuff, but from the outside it seems like the study of genetics is really taking off, including the interaction of genetics and behaviour.

NYTimes just carried a very in depth article on that topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/health/15gene.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

IQ is tricky, though. It's impossible to test the IQ of our ancestors, and not easy to test the IQ of very different cultures. You've been on Free Republic long enough to know that most of the people who are going to seize on the findings of this study are not going to be people with very high IQs themselves, they are just looking for justification for their prejudices.


89 posted on 06/17/2006 7:49:39 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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