10-03-2010, 06:40 PM
[quote name='Bharatvarsh2' date='20 August 2010 - 08:01 AM' timestamp='1282271005' post='107975']
Nothing new there, standard leftist delusions all repeated by Gould or Diamond before him.
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Agree. There is no doubt that , all populations that emigrated out of Africa have definitely evolved differently, in response to the different environments they faced. Evolution of these populations has happened on several attributes. Olfactory, lingual, audio-visual and spatial and all kinds of other attributes. It is commonly believed ( with good reason ) that Australian aborigines have excellent spatial ability to help them navigate the vast desert of Australia. Jews have better language/number skills than White europeans, White europeans in turn have better 3D Spatial perception and cognition than Jews on an average.
Blacks from Africa, have good sprinting capabilities, but not much of long distance endurance running though. The list goes on. Of course, it is hard to quantify and say definitively that one race is better than another in one attribute, only statistical averages that vary. I personally think there is also the part that random chance and initial conditions play in gene evolution.
One has to look at the populations of Papua New Guinea. There hundreds of tribes evolved seperately from each other, in isolation each having some traits that are dominant. Apparently, cannibalism and homosexuality are traits that have evolved in some of the tribes and not in some other tribes.
- Krishna
Nothing new there, standard leftist delusions all repeated by Gould or Diamond before him.
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Agree. There is no doubt that , all populations that emigrated out of Africa have definitely evolved differently, in response to the different environments they faced. Evolution of these populations has happened on several attributes. Olfactory, lingual, audio-visual and spatial and all kinds of other attributes. It is commonly believed ( with good reason ) that Australian aborigines have excellent spatial ability to help them navigate the vast desert of Australia. Jews have better language/number skills than White europeans, White europeans in turn have better 3D Spatial perception and cognition than Jews on an average.
Blacks from Africa, have good sprinting capabilities, but not much of long distance endurance running though. The list goes on. Of course, it is hard to quantify and say definitively that one race is better than another in one attribute, only statistical averages that vary. I personally think there is also the part that random chance and initial conditions play in gene evolution.
One has to look at the populations of Papua New Guinea. There hundreds of tribes evolved seperately from each other, in isolation each having some traits that are dominant. Apparently, cannibalism and homosexuality are traits that have evolved in some of the tribes and not in some other tribes.
- Krishna