To: Sopater
Yes, and Ashkenazic Jews show less "genetic diversity" yet have, arguably, the highest average IQ on the planet.
What a load of merde. There are just as many, if not more, arguments to be made AGAINST "hybrid vigor" than for it.
The argument in this study is similar to arguing that a mutt is genetically superior to a purebread Jack Russell.
10 posted on
02/22/2008 11:19:25 AM PST by
Clemenza
(I live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Wrecks)
To: Clemenza; DaveLoneRanger; metmom; editor-surveyor
The argument in this study is similar to arguing that a mutt is genetically superior to a purebread Jack Russell.
The point is that genetic diversity is therefore more genetically "strong", and thus, natural selection weakens the genetic strength of a population.
46 posted on
02/22/2008 11:37:13 AM PST by
Sopater
(A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Clemenza
The argument in this study is similar to arguing that a mutt is genetically superior to a purebread Jack Russell.It kind of depends on the mutt. And the Jack Russell.
To: Clemenza
Diversity is impurity.
Is that something to cheer? (heh, heh)
117 posted on
02/22/2008 3:53:36 PM PST by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: Clemenza
As Medved says, the fact that so many Jews vote for Democrats dispels the myth that Jews have some sort of racial super-intelligence.
122 posted on
02/22/2008 4:06:25 PM PST by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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