“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?
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.