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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
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Subject: Re: Inheritance of IQ
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Date: 20 Jul 89 17:41:16 GMT
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In article <603@visdc.UUCP> jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
}In article <3072@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu
}(Gordon E. Banks) writes:
}>
}> If populations are separated from each other, is it not conceivable
}> that evolutionary pressures in one environment might not differ from
}> those in another, thus producing a differential effect?
}
}Can you suggest what one of the "differential evolutionary pressures"
}might be?

Beats me.  But I would be willing to bet that those "pressures" which
bear upon something so hard to measure reasonably as IQ vary widely.
Maybe you would feel better thinking "color of horses".  It may
cloud the judgement less.
Heck, there is always just random variance over space that could produce
"pockets" of some trait regardless of, or even in spite of, environmental
characteristics.

}The human with the highest genetic potential for intelligence that has
}ever existed on the earth is most likely a peasant in China, and he or
}she is probably still alive.

Probably.  Simply because most of the people that ever existed are 
Chinese peasants.

What good is "highest genetic potential" without the information & tools
with which to use it?  Similiar to commenting upon the lift capabilities
of a Saturn V (with no fuel tank or launch facilities).

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how
 hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."             - Calvin 
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