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.
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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.
“that Jews in Europe got smarter”
Lot of good that did them in 1939-43.
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.
Question for the people who think that any talk about IQ and heredity automatically equals eugenics and Naziism - If you accept the principle of natural selection, which even most creationists as well as all evolutionists accept, then why can you not see the same principle at work here? On a scientific level, do you think human genetics operates any differently from that of the animals, which we routinely breed for the purposes of expressing specific traits?
Well, intelligence and common sense are not necessarily contiguous traits.
I think it’s primarily the financing that makes it funny. Next, the Pakistani’s are going to evolve a spatula arm to flip the hot dogs at the 7-11’s
So-called macro-evolution is an invention of some Creationists who want to draw an (invisible) line that blocks evolutionary changes from reaching the level of a new species (a population that can’t breed with the original).
No one has ever proposed a way for the organism to know it has reached that bordered and promptly stop accumulating mutations.
bordered = border
Except for the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of the Jews who worked in finance and the professions were murdered during the Second World War, and the bulk of modern Jewry are descendants of the dirt poor shtetl Jews of Poland and the Ukraine and the similarly circumstanced Mizrachim of Northern Africa.
It is obvious that from the days of at least the Babylonian Captivity the Jews had a reputation as a highly learned and competent population.
The border, obviously, is the point where members of what was formerly one species are no longer able to successfully interbreed due to mutation. Mulism.
This is hardly an invention of creationists, but an internal assumption of evolutionism.
exactly. It isn’t brain surgery- apparently this particular family/tribe of Jews, which has proven itself to be freakishly bright, obviously was sired by a very bright fellow, and he attracted intelligent women, and so on and so forth through the generations. Not being able to marry outside the faith obviously kept the high iq genes at home.
Those were the ones who built the Pyramids.
They say Einstein couldn't balance his own checkbook and was a disaster with money. It didn't matter much. Silly article.
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