From: Tom McCabe (rocketjet314@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 20:26:08 MDT
Hmmm... While this does look like a legitimate example
of natural selection in humans, I'm noting that this
is a special case (due to the comparative reproductive
isolation of Jews in Europe) and therefore not likely
to apply in the future, especially due to the
technology-driven global homogenization currently in
progress. I'm also not convinced that this has had any
significant effect on the course of human history-
while a comparatively large proportion of scientists
and such may be ethnically Jewish, a large number of
them seem to have abandoned Judaism as a religion,
eliminating the most substantiative difference between
them and their colleagues.
- Tom
--- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Tom McCabe wrote:
> >
> > Evolution has not had any significant influence on
> the
> > human species for the past thousand years due to
> time
> > limits and the recent lack of selection pressure;
> see
> > http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jcollie/sle/.
>
> The high ability of Ashkenazim seems to argue
> against
> this:
>
>
http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf
>
> --
> Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com>
> "If we have matter duplicators, will each of us be a
> sovereign
> and possess a hydrogen bomb?" -- Jerry Pournelle
>
>
>
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