Sorting out the patterns of human intelligence between the races.

The book Before The Dawn: Recovering The Lost History Of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade, 2006, has some interesting observations with regards to European evolution that seems to have passed without much notice. If not, then I apologize for my own failure to catch the items below.

Wade pints out that “The question of behavioral modernity is of great significance because it appears to be the last major step in the emergence of the ancestral human population. The components of modern behavior appear most prominently around 45,000 years ago in Europe. At sites throughout Europe, the staid culture of the Neanderthals begins to yield to a set of new and more inventive techniques. There is a new set of stone tools, more carefully crafted to attain specific shapes. There are complex tools made of bone, antler and ivory. The bringers of the new culture made personal ornaments, of materials such as punctured teeth, shells and ivory beads. They played bird-bone flutes. Their missile technology was much improved. They were avid hunters who could take down large and dangerous game. They buried their dead with rituals. They could support denser populations. They developed trade networks through which they obtained distant materials.”

Europeans at this time were experiencing recurring glaciation events that kept driving the population south where evolution and genetic drift would be accelerated due to the few members that survived, followed by population expansions after the glaciers receded. These cycles only occurred in the northern hemisphere so evolution was outpacing those races that laid to the south. At the same time, intelligence mutations were appearing and spreading:

“Genetic differentiation would certainly have started to act on the human populations of the Upper Paleolithic era. Bruce Lahn, a geneticist at the University of Chicago, has made a striking discovery about the evolution of two genes involved in the construction of the human brain. Each gene has several alternative versions, or alleles, but in each case one specific allele has become much more widespread than the others in certain populations. For an allele to rise to high frequency very quickly is a signature of natural selection hard at work. So presumably each allele conferred some very strong selective advantage.

“One of the alleles is an alternative version of a gene known as microcephalin. The allele appeared around 37,000 years ago (though anytime between 60,000 and 14,000 years is possible) and is now carried by some 70% of many populations of Europe and East Asia. The allele is much less common in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is typically carried by from zero to about 25% of the population.

“Just some 6,000 years ago a new allele of another brain gene, known as ASPM, appeared in the Middle East or Europe and rapidly rose to prominence, being carried by about 50% of people in these populations. The allele is less common in East Asia and occurs hardly at all in sub-Saharan Africans.

“What made the two alleles spread so quickly? It seems likely that each conferred some cognitive advantage, perhaps a slight one yet enough for natural selection to work on.

“In Lahn’s view, many genes are likely to be involved in constructing the human brain. He has found alleles of two of these genes, both of which happen to be quite common in Europeans and East Asians, but there almost certainly exist alleles of other genes that may be more common in other populations. Each population may therefore have used a different set of alleles to accomplish the same purpose, a well known biological process known as convergent evolution.”

Harpending et al. reported finding a number of alleles found in Ashkenazi Jews that led to high intelligence, and it was attributed to the unique occupational restrictions placed on Jews over the last several hundred years to work in areas where high mental ability was required. It is important then to recognize that not only are genes for general intelligence continually evolving, but also they can evolve very rapidly under the right ecological pressures. It is often stated that the high correlation between brain size and intelligence cannot be true because Albert Einstein had a brain slightly smaller than average. However, brain size is only one physiological trait that is correlated with intelligence—he could easily have had all of the other genetic components for high intelligence while missing brain size.

Again, “A firm conclusion from Lahn’s finding is that human evolution continued after the dispersal of the ancestral population 50,000 years ago, and took different forms in different populations. Much of this evolution may have been convergent, as each population adapted with different alleles to the same challenges. But convergent evolution does not necessarily proceed in lockstep in each separate population. So it could be that the spread of the microcephalin allele some 37,000 years ago expanded the cognitive powers of Caucasian populations and underlay such striking cultural advances as the Aurignacian people’s adeptness at painting caves, while other populations developed such capabilities later.”

Wade also summarized how races evolved—that is recognizable differences in terms of behavior and outward appearances: “When the ancestral human population dispersed across the world 50,000 years ago, evolution set in motion a grand experiment: each population, in its fiercely guarded territory, would develop in its own way. This development would be both cultural, leading to a vast family of different languages, religions and lifestyles, and also genetic, as the members of each society responded to different climates, ecologies and social arrangements of their own making. Isolated on their separate continents, the far flung branches of the human family were to follow different trajectories as each adapted to the strange world that lay beyond the boundaries of their ancestral homeland.”

Wade points out that, “Besides being well adapted or designed for their environments, chimp and human societies possess another salient feature in common, that of a strong propensity to kill their own kind. A willingness to kill members of one’s own species is apparently correlated with high intelligence. It may be that chimps and people are the only species able to figure out that the extra effort required to exterminate an opponent will bring about a more permanent solution than letting him live to fight another day.” A lesson that has not been learned well enough from our past wars outcomes.

The strawman set up to deny race is that there are no absolute genetic markers to define unique races. Of course that is not the definition of race. Wade explains, “Sets of these sites, known as Ancestry Informative Markers, can be used to identify not just an individual’s race but the racial origin of individual sections of a person’s genome. A company called DNAPrint Genomics has already started offering a test to assess people’s continent of origin and, if of mixed race, the proportions of ancestry due to different races.” This is one of the most cogent and short explanations of race I have come across. Wade goes on to explain that human races have such a wide differentiation in terms of genetic differences that many population groups would be designated as subspecies if we were not for humans pushing an egalitarian dogma.

How adapted a society is put together is dependent on more than intelligence and the ecological niche occupied. Wade notes that, “Some scholars have remarked on long term cultural differences between societies of East and West. Richard E. Nisbett, a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, believes there are ‘dramatic differences in the nature of Asian and European thought processes,’ principally that Westerners view the behavior of physical objects and organisms as being governed by precise rules, whereas East Asians seek to understand events in terms of the complex web of interrelationships in which they are embedded. The social structures of Europe and China are built to match, in Nisbett’s view, with Asian societies being interdependent and Western societies individualistic.”

This book is a very good explanation on how Europeans evolved. Two other books complement this one as well: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells, 2002, and Apes or Angels? Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race by Cornelius J. Troost, 2007.

Posted by Matt Nuenke on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 04:43 PM in IQ and Heredity
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Posted by Fred Scrooby on July 12, 2008, 08:39 PM | #

“Genetic differentiation would certainly have started to act on the human populations of the Upper Paleolithic era. Bruce Lahn, a geneticist at the University of Chicago, has made a striking discovery about the evolution of two genes involved in the construction of the human brain. Each gene has several alternative versions, or alleles, but in each case one specific allele has become much more widespread than the others in certain populations. For an allele to rise to high frequency very quickly is a signature of natural selection hard at work. So presumably each allele conferred some very strong selective advantage.

“One of the alleles is an alternative version of a gene known as microcephalin. The allele appeared around 37,000 years ago (though anytime between 60,000 and 14,000 years is possible) and is now carried by some 70% of many populations of Europe and East Asia. The allele is much less common in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is typically carried by from zero to about 25% of the population.

“Just some 6,000 years ago a new allele of another brain gene, known as ASPM, appeared in the Middle East or Europe and rapidly rose to prominence, being carried by about 50% of people in these populations. The allele is less common in East Asia and occurs hardly at all in sub-Saharan Africans.”

Poor stupid Heidi Klum bought into the Jewish brainwashing and has, through her interspecies-hybrid son, tied her socio-genetic destiny and that of her white daughter forever to the world, not of Europeans, but of Sub-Saharan Africans (characterized genetically by the above grave deficits) and their interspecies-hybrids. I only hope her innocent daughter can manage later to break away from that dark, wholly alien world her foolish or insane mother thrust her into, and return to her own. In the meantime, Jews who commit the crime of pushing this sort of Jewish propaganda on the public with the intent of promoting the kind of personally and communally ruinous outcome Heidi Klum stupidly stumbled into deserve to be prosecuted under the United Nations genocide statutes.

human races have such a wide differentiation in terms of genetic differences that many population groups would be designated as subspecies if we were not for humans pushing an egalitarian dogma.

But I don’t subscribe to the Jews’ egalitarian dogma, and therefore am not kept from acknowledging the truth on these matters: far more different than distinct races, West-African True Negroes and True Europeans are distinct species. That is not to say one is sub-human. Both are human, but distinct species of human, and one kind of human lags evolutionarily behind the other by anywhere from 200,000 to between 700,000 and one million years.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on July 12, 2008, 10:30 PM | #

Obliquely on topic: U.S. Negroes in a small genetic study of fifty individuals averaged 15% Euro, much closer to Steve Sailer’s figure of around 17% than the “20%-30%” wishful thinking claimed in some quarters. Admittedly, 50 participants amounts to a tiny study whose statistical significance is bound to be questionable, but I’ve seen a number of people acquainted with the field who accept a figure of around 18%, rejecting higher estimates.

Posted by onetwothree on July 13, 2008, 11:25 AM | #

Offtopic:

Check out this artile:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1821376,00.html?cnn=yes

Summary: The producers of reportage (newspapers) are being killed by the internet [1]. (We’re aware of this, and mostly have thought it a good thing, since the media is controlled mainly by one group.) However, this void is starting to be filled by non-profits, funded by wealthy private individuals. The example given is Herb Sandler, of moveon.org and lots of other horrible organizations.

Upshot: So, where the nytimes was strictly a leftist affair, it was nonetheless constrained by the demands of the marketplace. *That will no longer be the case.* The same people will control the media, but now the media will answer only to wealthy donors. Think PBS with new, and worse, ownership.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on July 13, 2008, 11:34 AM | #

Onetwothree, thanks for the heads-up but I simply don’t see how whatever’s coming can be any worse than the present Jewish total information-lockdown.

Posted by Robert Reis on July 14, 2008, 12:25 AM | #

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/10/killing.spree/index.html

Dog off the menu for OlympicsFrom correspondents in Beijing
July 11, 2008 03:19pm
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BEIJING has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.

Dog is eaten by the large Korean community in China’s capital and is also popular in Yunnan and Guizhou restaurants.

A directive from the Beijing Food Safety Office issued last month ordered Olympic contractor hotels not to provide any dishes made with dog meat and said any canine material used in traditional medicated diets must be clearly labelled.

Concerned that canine dishes might offend animal rights groups and Western visitors, Beijing said restaurants expected to be popular among foreign visitors must stop serving dog meat “to respect the dining customs of different countries”.

The directive “advocated” that all restaurants serving dog suspend it during the Olympics but made no mention of the many popular establishments with donkey on the menu.

Criticism from Westerners caused the dog meat-loving South Koreans to ban canine dishes for a period of time during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24003705-38197,00.html
Tortured Cats Won’t Make You More Virile
Globalism; Posted on: 2007-07-27 13:34:59 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]

The more cats are tortured, the fresher the taste of the meat, some of the Cantonese are said to believe.

By Wang Yong
Shanghai Daily

THERE’s more than one way to skin a cat, but for most people, the Cantonese way is beyond comprehension.

In Guangzhou, screeching cats are bashed on the head and plunged into boiling water (still alive and yowling), but they finally expire with a whimper, using up their ninth life just to satisfy the demand for ultimate freshness of finicky Cantonese “gourmets.”

The more cats are tortured, the fresher the taste of the meat, some of the Cantonese are said to believe.

And cat meat, they say, is great for virility. Business is very brisk.

This is all according to an investigative report by New Express, republished yesterday by Xinhua news agency.

Ji Xuguang, the New Express reporter who went to several cat fairs and restaurants for his secret investigation, said he witnessed cats wailing desperately when they were smashed by iron rods and then thrown into boiling water.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 10, 2008, 02:22 AM | #

“That is not to say one is sub-human. Both are human but distinct species of human, one lagging evolutionarily behind the other by anywhere from 200,000 to between 700,000 and one million years.” (—my comment)

Some of my figures there have partly to do with the thesis that Euro Neanderthal blood flows in Euro veins. Some will have read that the just-completed sequencing of Neanderthal mtDNA rules this out. There’s only one problem with that: it doesn’t, not in the slightest. It leaves it very much open as a possibility.

Posted by Dasein on March 04, 2009, 04:13 PM | #

Some of my figures there have partly to do with the thesis that Euro Neanderthal blood flows in Euro veins. Some will have read that the just-completed sequencing of Neanderthal mtDNA rules this out. There’s only one problem with that: it doesn’t, not in the slightest. It leaves it very much open as a possibility. -Fred Scrooby

Cochran and Harpending (in The 10,000 Year Explosion) also provide a good summary of evidence that is consistent with this thesis (which I personally accept). They reason that despite anatomical differences, there would have been inter-breeding, saying that disgust would not prevent it (citing examples of bestiality). Perhaps Heidi Klum and Seal would have been a better example (but I’m glad they keep it as non-controversial as possible- I may even recommend the book to miscegenating acquaintances). Maybe you’ve read the book Fred, or know their reasoning already, but I’ll summarize for anyone who’s not familiar. They suggest that even limited inter-breeding with Neanderthals could have resulted in alleles becoming dominant which provided a fitness benefit (whereas others which were neutral or deleterious would have disappeared- perhaps mtDNA being an example of this). In a nutshell, we got some good Neanderthal genes, and those which were no good eventually disappeared. Some clever race replacement advocate will perhaps use this (maybe some already are, I’m not reading much of their stuff though) to present miscegenation as a long-term positive. It doesn’t justify massive invasion by racial aliens, but it may give them a slippery slope to work with. There are of course a number of good reasons to reject it, one being that traits that can increase reproductive fitness in Western societies as they are consituted at the moment (e.g. promiscuity, lack of planning) are not what we consider good, even if the alleles influencing them were to increase in subsequent generations. I’m happy with what we got from the Neanderthals. I don’t want anything from Negroes.

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