Comments on: Never believe it. We’ve fought too hard.

By: ElamBend

ElamBend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One interesting comment is from Akbar2 who asserts that IQ tests are a Jewish/American construct. When someone points out that East Asians are the top of the lists, he states that he stands corrected, but then asserts that Jews are Asians after all (in reference to a certain conspiracy theory that Jews (at least the Azkenazim) are really from Siberia not the Levant, thus have no claim there.

One thing I'd love to see explored (and it was sort of alluded to in Saletan's piece) is the evolutionary pressures that created the different outcomes, or just some indication of the history of the wondering of the non-celtic Indo/European types.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Which is why I keep coming back to TDAXP!

* zing *

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ElamBend,

Could you rephrase what you are looking for?

Aaron,

But only for the trivia

By: ElamBend

ElamBend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'd love to know why the differences exist. What Specific causes created them?
What happened once humans left Africa? Where does the Asiatic/caucasoidal horde of the Asian interior fall?

I'm not sure they can be answered, particularly the latter two, but I'd love to know.

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nick Wade's book [1,2] has very readable sections on post-African evolution

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Before-Dawn-Recovering-History-Ancestors/dp/1594200793
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/05/02/review-of-before-the-dawn-by-nicholas-wade.html

By: ElamBend

ElamBend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you