The experience in many Asian cultures is similar. Wealth was positively correlated to having adult children. In some cultures, children were seen as an important form of wealth.
Changes in agriculture, diet and technology accounts for most of that doesn’t it? If we went back to subsistence hunter gatherer economies, the very next generation would have heavier short bones wouldn’t they?
I have a lot of trouble believing that the average Nigerian is moderately retarded.
No, that’s wrong. You’re confusing the Northern European race (light skin, blonde hair, blue eyes) Southern European race (light skin, dark hair, brown eyes) and Middle Eastern race (olive skin, dark hair, dark eyes.) They’re totally different. Just look at them.
Now please explain the intellectual differences between the NE, SE and ME races.
Always glad to help. You could start with the following:
The Aboriginal Population of Australia by Len Smith “Difficult to Found An Opinion”: 1788 Population Estimates by Derek John Mulvaney Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia 1788-1850 by N.G. Butlin Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos Prehistory of Australia by Derek John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga
On the other hand, maybe you’d prefer something a little easier to digest and more readily available online. For that we have Wikipedia.
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians — who are Hogmies.
The cause of the larger visual cortex in Aborigines could come about for a variety of reasons. However, the fact is they do in fact perform rather well in terms of spatial memory and do have a larger visual cortex than caucasians. Their brains are noted to be quite different and they tend to have different iq results. As a population isolated for about 44,000 years provide an interesting example of human diversity. The recently found denisovans may have provided some of their ancestry.
I can’t. There is a relationship between the number of thousands of years a population has practiced civilization and the average IQ, but it is not a perfect correlation.
Nevertheless, Italy, to whom we owe the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance, has a higher average IQ than the Scandinavian countries, which did not really begin to build cities until a thousand years ago.
You keep quoting this as if it is fact. It’s the product of some moron with access to the internet. It’s just complete ignorance that would allow someone to think they could “estimate the IQ of a nation.” Read their methodology - it’s ludicrous and racist to boot.
The average IQ of any distinct cultural group is 100. All this stuff you’re saying makes absolutely no sense.
Well you’d better revisit your theories if you’re now admitting there’s no suck thing as a “White race.”
Now please explain this “black race” you’re talking about, when Africa has no such thing; I see the EAst African, Bantu, Khoisian and Pygmy races. Does the early adoption of ironworking and animal husbandry by Bantu affect their IQ?
Please do not forget the Sahelien peoples, who are different than the Atlantic cost peoples of West Africa from them came the Bantu. How a Peul or Songhiké is the same as a Fan I do not know. It is also strange he makes the difference from north Africa but they have had indigenous from prehistoric and slave descended black people for many centuries.
When confronted with a theory one does not want to believe in it is common to look for any discrepancy, and use that as an excuse to reject the whole thing.
In Africa south of the Equator the period from 500 BC until AD 1000 was first and foremost the period which saw the change to food production. Before 500 BC there may have been a little deliberate ‘vegeculture’, or intentional planting of vegetable foods, but most food was either hunted or gathered. After AD 1000, though people still hunted and gathered, most of their food came from agriculture and stock-raising, the emphasis in the economy depending largely on ecological factors. This transition to food production coincided, more or less, with the transition from the Stone to the Iron Age. On present evidence it would seem safe to say that before 500 BC no metal tools were in use, http://histories.cambridge.org/extract?id=chol9780521215923_CHOL9780521215923A008
By the times Negroes were leaving the paleolithic age whites had already built the great civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, and Greece.
In Italy the murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants is 0.87.
In the United States the murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants is 4.8.
In Italy the per capita gross domestic product is $30,100.
In the United States the per capita gross domestic product is $48,100.
These findings come from IQ and the Wealth of Nations, by Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
To the best of my knowledge no one else has made an international study of IQ differences between different countries. However, their findings correlate with international school performance, and every study comparing the IQs of blacks, whites, and Orientals.