New book hints at genetic basis of Troublesome black races

[zarahan]

Per one summary:

(1) Why did the Industrial Revolution occur first in England? Wade lays out evidence, collected by the economist Gregory Clark in A Farewell to Alms, that those in England’s upper classes had been having more children than those in the lower classes — possibly affecting traits including “interpersonal violence, literacy, the propensity to save and the propensity to work,” and in turn transformingWade the population into one capable of immense economic output. An enormous population growth spurt starting around 1770 finally set the revolution off, and it quickly spread to other nations that were similarly situated.

(2) Wade says China had the right evolution but not the right institutions to take advantage of industry once it emerged, which is why its economy didn’t take off until it adopted economic reforms. Wade notes the examination system that was in place in China starting in 124 B.C., which he says created a sort of meritocracy that allowed the best scorers to rise in society and have the most children.

(3) Did violent tendencies evolve differently in different places? Wade notes that, among the Yanomamo of South America, men who have killed in battle have 2 1/2 times as many children as those who don’t. And he cites evidence that one gene that seems to contribute to violence — “MAO-A” — doesn’t show up evenly across populations, with one evidently violence-promoting variant being present in 5 percent of African-Americans but only 0.1 percent of Caucasians. The “gracilization” of the skull — the thinning that occurred as humans became less likely to try to bash each others’ brains in — shows a pattern too, but a very different one: It’s “most pronounced in sub-Saharan Africans and East Asians, with Europeans retaining considerable robustness.” Still another genetic variant, one related specifically to violence when drunk, has been found in Finns.

(4) Wade also digs into Jewish history, relaying theories that the religion’s emphasis on literacy — a skill with little practical value in a farming society — may have driven the less intelligent to join Christianity instead, and that European Jews’ being highly concentrated in intellectually demanding professions like moneylending may have further contributed to increased IQ.

[zarahan]

Wade's data contradicts XYZ's approach several times. Wade draws on the STRUCTURE
program to develop his claim of clear biological races. These races can be
identified by peculiar behavioral differences, among other things, some who
follow Wade's model argue.

Wade himself points to violence in Africa, suggesting a genetic basis. He holds
that while the genes for violence are unknown, murder rates in the industrialized
world are lower than those in sub-Saharan Africa, “a difference that does not prove
but surely allows room for a genetic contribution to greater violence in the less
developed world.”

[anansi]

This book and the contents there in is rubbish and easily debunked.
Here is why, Scandinavians were among the most violence prone folks 800yrs ago they slashed each other during a meal,so violent they conceived their heaven as a place you fought wars every day die feast and do the whole thing the next day for eternity.add to that they were described as being extremely dull and unintelligent,fast forward today the Scandinavian countries have among the highest standard of living any where in the world,well educated and at peace within themselves and with the world,I think Sweden haven't had a war for over 200yrs now.

Mali 800yrs back had 0% crime some say in Timbuktu they had 100% literacy rates their population was well off standard of living very for the common man, violence and instability were unknown..fast forward today Mali is in chaos brigands,violence and ineptitude is the rule.

[azrur]

Jul 24, 2014 23:08:42 GMT -5 anansi said:

This book and the contents there in is rubbish and easily debunked.
Here is why, Scandinavians were among the most violence prone folks 800yrs ago they slashed each other during a meal,so violent they conceived their heaven as a place you fought wars every day die feast and do the whole thing the next day for eternity.add to that they were described as being extremely dull and unintelligent,fast forward today the Scandinavian countries have among the highest standard of living any where in the world,well educated and at peace within themselves and with the world,I think Sweden haven't had a war for over 200yrs now.

Mali 800yrs back had 0% crime some say in Timbuktu they had 100% literacy rates their population was well off standard of living very for the common man, violence and instability were unknown..fast forward today Mali is in chaos brigands,violence and ineptitude is the rule.

sweden they are not a very good country i would think they are supposed to be most place where there are rapist occurring as well as going below libya on the human development scale but all those other place in that area are supposed to be good place especially the one that is an island