Race and Intelligence

53.1% of respondents supported the partly genetic position,

All the evidence I've seen appears to support this position. Just like body size, the end result seems to be affected by both genetic predisposition as well as environmental factors

The only question is "by how much?"

It becomes more difficult because on a genetic level race doesn't exist (at least in humans)

You cannot point to any specific gene and say "all white people have this gene that other ethnicities don't have"

And to a certain extent our genetics are influenced by our environment as evolution demonstrates. Human beings are much more genetically homogeneous compared to other species. The only reason why any ethnicity would share common traits is because they share a common environment.

Incorrect. SNPs can trace one's ancestry and ones mix of the three major races with 95+% accuracy

Yes, you can. They're called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. That's why DNA evidence can tell police they are looking for a white male suspect. It's the same method used in paternity tests. In The Journey of Man, SNPs are used to trace large-scale human migrations in the past.

Incorrect. They would share a common trait because either they share a common ancestor or because of similar evolutionary pressures coupled with similar mutations.

SNP alleles are not exclusive, what they are doing is looking for a remnant that is common for a particular geographical location. For example, you could find an SNP allele that is very common among those with central african descendents but much rarer among other peoples, it only identifies this within a certain degree of accuracy. hose which only developed once are exclusive to those of shared ancestory. To deny this, you must reject paternity testing and DNA evidence in court. It is the same technology and is based in the same science.

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I will give you an example, those with ancestors closer to the equator have darker skin. Do all dark skinned people share a common ancestor that lighter skinned people do not? No, not to any great extent.

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ok.. so if race and language werent dispersed and scattered at babel.. what happened?

ok.. so if race and language werent dispersed and scattered at babel.. what happened?

ok.. so if race and language werent dispersed and scattered at babel.. what happened?

hose which only developed once are exclusive to those of shared ancestory. To deny this, you must reject paternity testing and DNA evidence in court. It is the same technology and is based in the same science.

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Is this a serious question?

yes.. for cereal.. haha.. they moved.. grrrrr.. duh!!.. but did these peoples just create their own languages?

yes.. for cereal.. haha.. they moved.. grrrrr.. duh!!.. but did these peoples just create their own languages?

After two hundred years, Americans and Britons can barely speak to eachother. That's with modern developments that allow us to even communicate.

Well, language would have started off very primitive, basically just sounds to indicate if there was water or danger nearby, and it slowly became more complex, since most humans came from the same small group coming out africa there would have been just one language initially, and when these group migrates and spread out they became isolated, they would eventually pronoun words differently because they were isolated and they would come up with their own words to describe their own environment. Language "evolved" so to speak, no pun intended.

So, all races came out of Africa, according to some. Also, (according to some), black Africans are the first people of the earth. If this is true, (all races descending from the black race - Oops, species - since FF adheres to the belief that there is only ONE race), why is the black race/species the least productive and intelligent on this planet; why have blacks fell behind their non-black descendants? Or, through evolution....are blacks the beginning of the racial chain and all descending races more intelligent/productive because they are the later stages of evolution? Points to ponder.