Posted on 05/10/2014 12:45:28 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Nicholas Wade, a leading science writer whose specialty is human evolution, likes to ask interesting questions. Here are some examples:
Why has the West been the most exploratory and innovative civilization in the world for the past 500 years?
Why are Jews of European descent so massively overrepresented among the top achievers in the arts and sciences?
Why is the Chinese diaspora successful all around the world?
Why is it so difficult to modernize tribal societies?
Why has economic development been so slow in Africa?
Contemporary thinkers have offered lots of provocative answers for such questions. It’s all about geography. Or institutions. Or rice culture. Or the devastating legacy of colonialism. Or Jewish mothers. Now comes another explanation, one that bravely explores the highly dangerous elephant in the room. Mr. Wade argues that human history has also been profoundly influenced by genetics.
Part of his new book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, is a summary of new findings in genetic science, and part of it is highly speculative. All of it is bound to be deeply unpopular among social scientists, because it challenges their entrenched belief that race is nothing more than a social construct. The wide diversity in human societies around the world can be explained entirely by culture, they insist. We’re all the same under the skin.
Except we’re not quite. Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, evidence of subtle genetic differences has been piling up. As our ancestors branched out of Africa, different groups of people evolved in slightly different ways to adapt to local conditions...
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
It’s your thread, sir. If you aren’t willing or able to discern that I am “grown-up” then I will not try to dissuade you of that conception.
Yes, but Germans were fools. Germans said, "WE are the standard of all things superior, so anything NOT German in inferior'.... It's like those democrats on TV who are sighing all the time if they have to hear an idea different than their orthodoxy.
The fact that Germans were idiots and fools who thought they were the 'measure' of all things does NOT mean all races are alike... It means Germans were narcissistic idiots.
The differences between races might be minor - or not - but they exist.
In the seventies the PC was that 'men and women were exactly alike except they were socialized differently'. It was pure bunk - but liberals and many conservatives 'believed'... Now we laugh at the idea. Men and woman are different and that doesn't mean either one is superior or inferior - it means different. They're equal before the law - that matters.
You've been around here a long time BenLurkin - and you're a smart person... can you tell me a little more about why you feel like you do?
I’ve fallen for several myself. But I try not to make a practice of it.
That is an excellent post, but I don’t understand what you mean by “feel like you do.”
Yet no effort to explain how well churches Christians could vote almost a 100% against God, and for full term abortion, to remove God from America, against marriage, and for Sodom and Gomorrah, and for personal greed and indulgence.
You might also want to look at statistics on things that we associate with debauchery and pleasure seeking, and living for sensory pleasure mixed with irresponsibility, and crime and the seeming absence of Christian influence.
Very wise words.
Most of the physicists who built the A-bomb for America had fled persecution by the Nazis.
They could never have built a Bomb themselves, because they rejected the very physics needed as "Jewish science."
Utterly self-defeating, in the most literal possible sense of the term.
The Bantu were never the breadbasket of the continent, sorry
Now Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa - until the past 20 years- same geography, different settlers, different story
IMO,China will soon be back in there quietly colonizing Africa for food production for its own people
ditto with agriculture in Israel and “Palestine”
same geography, different people, different story
Yeah. I’ve often marveled at the shear irony of that very thing.
There was a safety net though. Even if the refugees failed, the Nazis would not succeed, their efforts were doomed in the cradle by incorrect data from a graphite moderated reactor that “proved” the idea was impractical.
It turns out that German graphite has a whisper, just a trace, of neutron absorbing boron!
What if?
Rotflmaopimp
I can only imagine the klown posse stupidity downthread
According to complete dumbasses here
I’d like to see proof of some of those claims.
Because I don’t believe them...
Not for one second
Plenty of poor and stupid Chinese.
Anyone who has kids knows personality is inherited largely
Frankly....that post of yours is one big bullcrap fantasy
Just one big self serving lie.
Where do you dream up such myths about rural white America as a wasteland of illegitimacy and stupidity in the old days?
I bet you think Deliverance was a documentary.
Why do you think all the redistributed white land went to formerly urban blacks?
Because it didn’t....it went to rural black tribals in small self subsistence plots
Folks who knew how to farm but no incentive to grow enough beyond that for commerce and trade like the large white tract owners had
Its an old collectivist problem regardless of whether Bantu or Mosquito or Sendero
Badabing..lol
Did the PCBOTS squirm?
I can only imagine how many on this thread are itching to hit the mod button
I see many on this thread I’ve seen for 14 years scream racist whenever they can.
It makes them feel righteous in their comfy confines
No
We do not have to help them like we are the fix it race
That is the trap don’t you see that
White paternalism....oh blacks need whites to fix themselves since blacks rise or fall under white dominance
How about its up to them....how many more decades and generations till the virtual worldwide lag and collapse of the black race becomes their fault?
What about areas where they had no contact with Europeans to speak of
Has there ever been a race so excused?
I learned this in the 6th decade of last century in our blackest state....back when I bought the narrative the PC here trumpet....silly me
The destiny of the black race will only be solved in their hands.
Whites will only screw it up and breed dependence...resentment and contempt
Sound familiar.
Bttt
Slam dunk
Murdering and raping and robbing us in genocidal numbers is not a culture war
Its a war war...like Whoopie’s rape rape
Its a race war of opportunity.
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