Comments on: A New People http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/04/16/a-new-people.html Because I say so Tue, 14 May 2013 23:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: FredR http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/04/16/a-new-people.html/comment-page-1#comment-1305909 FredR Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:26:04 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=9337#comment-1305909 Have you been following the discussion at westhunt.wordpress.com? Cochran and Harpending seem to be moving towards a model where mutational load (determined differences in average paternal age over the last thousand years or so) is a large factor in the health, behavior, and psychometric profile of a population.

]]> By: tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/04/16/a-new-people.html/comment-page-1#comment-1175037 tdaxp Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:31:51 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=9337#comment-1175037 Michael,

It’s definitely interesting.

I know that light skin color evolved twice (East Asians are pale because of different genes than Europeans), so perhaps intelligence did too?

Fascinating stuff!

]]> By: Michael http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2012/04/16/a-new-people.html/comment-page-1#comment-1169331 Michael Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:37:36 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=9337#comment-1169331 If I read Razib’s article correctly, it’s the C version that codes for higher intelligence. If so, an ironic blow for the nurture side of the IQ debate–blacks in this country should be out-competing us!

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