Racial differences...

[Louis VI the Fat]

I was about to PC-jump you with the claim that evolution is measured in hundred of thousands of years, so there has never been enough time for our minds to divert racially.

Then I thought of our bodies clearly having had time enough to divert, and the follow up question, then why not the brain?

Only studies I have found would be ill to bring up here (Goodwin and stuff). Anyone know more about this?

I read Cochran and Harpending's 'The 10000 Year Explosion'.


Not the best book I've read. It did have one whopping eye-opener: evoultion hasn't slowed don. Evolution accelerated the past 10.000 years. Which had never occurred to me, but which makes a lot of sense. It's been an evolutionary roller-coaster ride., what with the spread to new climates, small wandering bands, agriculture, civilisation, cities.

Consider it an anti-dote to Jared Diamond, who descibes many of these developments, but reaches an opposite conclusion.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

But PVC. One might as well say that people with African ancestry have darker skin. This is what we are talking about:

And? As Lous says, heritable traits...

Cool, innit?

There are lots of fun statistics to be had with bell curves. or example, it is possible that the peak of the red curve is to the right of the blue one, but that the blue has a larger spread. In this case, despite the reds being more talented, in the extremes, the blues are the majority.

I know (pleas don't use "innit" again though, it threatens to give me a migrain).

I've always wondered whether this isn't the difference between men and women in many aspects. Women are so overwhelmingly 'normal'. Most of the imbeciles and geniuses I know are men. What's more, even more rare are female combinations of the two: the clever idiot, and the confused genius. Or, as that 70's book title read: There are no female Einsteins because there are no female Jack the rippers.

Interesting thought, dunno.

I read Cochran and Harpending's 'The 10000 Year Explosion'.


Not the best book I've read. It did have one whopping eye-opener: evoultion hasn't slowed don. Evolution accelerated the past 10.000 years. Which had never occurred to me, but which makes a lot of sense. It's been an evolutionary roller-coaster ride., what with the spread to new climates, small wandering bands, agriculture, civilisation, cities.

Consider it an anti-dote to Jared Diamond, who descibes many of these developments, but reaches an opposite conclusion.

Now THAT is interesting.

[A Nerd]

It's all fine with me but don't fly airplanes into buildings and especially DON'T KNOCK ON MY DOOR ON SUNDAY MORNING

No, I will only stew within myself with you being a connotation to my own excessive degree of self-loathing. So is my evolution, and so is my religion.

[Louis VI the Fat]

pleas don't use "innit" again though, it threatens to give me a migrain.

Eeeyaa! Wot yu on abowt geeza? Yu downt wan noffink a do with me den?

I will only stew within myself with you being a connotation to my own excessive degree of self-loathing. So is my evolution, and so is my religion.

Wots dat mean m8? Is u bein sarky wiv me?

[A Nerd]

Wots dat mean m8? Is u bein sarky wiv me?

You make less sense than I do. Perhaps I just can't explain...

[Centurion1]

Don't bother rhy he doesn't respond to defenses he just ignores you

[Strike For The South]

'The 10000 Year Explosion' works from a flawed premise.

We all look at race through a western persective and through a western media. No wonder this thread has come to the conclusion all blacks are athletes

[Centurion1]

I dont think that......

[Louis VI the Fat]

'The 10000 Year Explosion' works from a flawed premise.

We all look at race through a western persective and through a western media. No wonder this thread has come to the conclusion all blacks are athletes

Gah! See, this is what you get if you spend time at college!

That Texas schoolbook woman is right - Texas education is liberal indoctrination.

You make less sense than I do. Perhaps I just can't explain.

I'm usually a good reader. Your previous two posts went well over my head though. I've re-read them several times now, but can't figure them out.

Hey - at least you and I don't start a flamewar over our not understanding the other!!