Group Differences in the News
by tdaxp ~ September 17th, 2008
Evolution has, is, and will continue to go on all around some. Some recent blog posts about group differences, and how selection effects them.
- From Catholicgauze, The Roman Empire weakened European defense against AIDS
- From Gene Expression, US geographic regions different in their personality and white Bush-voters are more fertile than white Kerry voters
- From gnxp, diseases may be defenses against diseases, and the less intelligent are outbreeding the more intelligent
AIDS resistance, personality, politics, disease-risk, and intelligence are all heritable, thus the common thread of these psots.
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2 008/06/19/the-foreign-polic...
September 17th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Can’t the “less intelligent outbreeding the more intelligent” observation be explained in terms of access to sex education programs and effective birth control?
Historically, the ‘underclasses’ had fewer children because they were starving (women would suffer from amenhorrea and thus be infertile); today, it seems, they have more children and less access to family planning information and resources.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Reading gnxp article I kept thinking about Idiocracy directed by Mike Judge. Great links tdaxp.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:43 am
fl,
Possibly. Plus less future-time-orientation, less income to be lost by having children, and so on.
Glenn,
That was a funny movie! [1]
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/07/07/the-greencine-five-part-iii-12-monkeys-signs-of-life-twin-peaks-the-place-promised-in-our-early-days-idiocracy.html