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Re: Race, intelligence, and anti-racist prejudice (Was: Genetic Evolution)
L Olson (elson@sierra.net)
Fri, 17 Feb 1995 18:39:50
In article <3hmqls$1is@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> lsd@ix.netcom.com (Lane Singer) writes:
>If you have no idea, then why do you make the assertion that
>one race is more intelligent than another for genetic reasons?
TBC p.298-301
"one race is more intelligent than another" is broad, and can be very
misleading, but... yah.
>Do you really believe that TBC has delivered conclusive evidence of
>an inter-ethnic IQ gap that is fundamentally expainable by genes
>that vary according to race?
Not "fundamentally" - it is a major factor. So is early nutrition in
individuals. It seems as if you'd like to paint it as purely genetic or purely
environmental and then pick holes on that basis. It doesn't make a lot of
sense to me that a study of Asian children, brought up in _very_ different
environments, cultural and otherwise, would lead to the identical variation in
non-verbal. It seems unlikely, to put it mildly.
>As for the likelyhood of adaptive selection on any of these genes,
>I don't accept your rather offhand assertion that "that these genes
>(like any others) can be selected for." I'd like to at least hear
>what factors might assert such pressures, and in what way these
>factors exist for one population more than for another.
Do you really believe that the brain is exempt from natural selection?
Consider also, when wondering how marginal cognitive gains could evolve so
quickly, that one of the most valuable adaptions a species could evolve is the
ability to adapt quickly.
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