Reddit mentions of A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

Falls sich jemand mit der wissenschaftlichen Basis für interethnische Unterschiede in der Verteilung von (genetischen) Verhaltensprädispositionen beschäftigen will, empfehle ich dieses Buch zum Einstieg:

https://www.amazon.de/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History/dp/0143127160

Es ist übrigens Konsens unter Wissenschaftlern der jeweiligen Fachbereiche, dass menschliches Verhalten eine große genetische Komponente hat und dass in einzelnen ethnische Gruppen spezifische Selektion stattgefunden hat u.a. auch auf Gene, die an der Gehirnentwicklung beteiligt sind. Die Frage ist eher worauf genau selektiert wurde. Warum ist offensichtlich: unterschiedliche ethnische Gruppen haben in unterschiedlichen natürlichen bzw. kulturellen Umgebungen gelebt. Vor allem seit Beginn des Ackerbaus haben sich die Lebensbedingungen massiv geändert. Der menschliche Verstand ist keinesfalls in der Altsteinzeit stehen geblieben. Verbliebene Jäger und Sammler-völker kommen vielleicht deswegen im Vergleich am schlechtesten mit dem modernen Leben zurecht.

> Can we get Nawaz, Harris and Murray to have a conversation about this?

Throw in also Nicholas Wade, the author of A Troublesome Inheritance, the book I'm reading right now, which provides nuanced insights into how different human populations evolved differently and how those differences are reflected in the genome, while also subject to continued evolution and fluidity.

Oh...no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreeding_depression

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/heterosis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem

http://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History/dp/0143127160/

http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299/

I read a lot. I was in elementary school in the 1970s and it was all the rage back then to train kids in gifted programs in speed-reading, which my school did. I was the fastest reader, in fact I got a talking-to for speeding up the machine because it was going too slowly for me. :| I still read very quickly.

Most of the books I read have to do with religion and spirituality, like The Weapon, Resistance, The Four Last Things. Right now I'm deep into St. Faustina's diary. It's extraordinary.

In fiction I love classic literature, novels and short stories. Jane Austen, J.D. Salinger, Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have a particular taste for 19th century French writers: Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo. They motivate me to improve my French.

In non-fiction, I read about dog training and health, business, human nutrition and health, history and politics. Anyone struggling with weight loss might want to check out Dr. Jason Fung's The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended - good info there.

Currently on my to-buy list:

• IQ and the Wealth of Nations
  
• In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
  
• The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
  
• Padre Pio: Man of Hope
  
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  A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
  
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  The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
  
  I prefer paper books, they are dependable and unchanging. Ebooks may or may not be there later and you never know how they've been changed, or by whom.
  
  I don't think any of that has to do with being an INTP necessarily, except maybe having a range of interests.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/11/03/is-it-possible-to-increase-your-height/#1757e5cc5139


http://time.com/4655634/genetics-height-tall-short/


There is a reason that identical twins reach a very similar height, even if separated and live in different environments, as long as they get a minimum threshold of resources, (so that their height isn't stunted in any way). But it's not like if one gets adopted by the royal palace, and the other one gets adopted by a middle class family, that the rich one with more resources will be anything more than slightly taller. As long as they get their appropriate resources, they are intended to reach their blueprint, their genetic DNA design for their body. There is evidence that better resources can positively impact your height slightly, but not much more.


Intelligence is certainly more complex than height, and harder to measure than height, but it certainly isn't "hard to measure" in a vacuum. It is very, very easy to tell whether the person across from you meets a certain level of intelligence or not, and you don't even need a test to do so. The fact that we do have advanced testing methods only solidifies the point.


Sam Harris recently said, "What we have here is a set of nested taboos. Human intelligence itself is a taboo topic. People don't want to hear that intelligence is a real thing, and that some people have more of it than others. They don't want to hear that IQ tests really measure it. They don't want to hear that differences in IQ matter, because they are highly predictive of differential success in life. And not just for things like education attainment, and wealth, but for things like out of wedlock birth, and mortality. People don't want to hear that a person's intelligence is, in large measure, due to his or her genes, and there seems to be very little we can do environmentally, to increase a person's intelligence, even in childhood. It's not that the environment doesn't matter, but genes appear to be 50-80% of the story. People don't want to hear this. And they certainly don't want to hear that average IQ differs across races and ethnic groups. Now, for better or worse, these are all facts. In fact, there is almost nothing in psychological science, for which there is more evidence than these claims, about IQ, about the validity of testing for it, about it's importance in the real world, about it's heritability, and about it's differential expression in different populations. Again, this is what a dispassionate look at what decades of research suggests."


"The efforts to invalidate the very notions of 'general intelligence', and race have been wholly unconvincing from a psychometric and biological point of view. And are obviously motivated by a political discomfort in talking about these things. And I understand and share that discomfort."


If you would like to see the data that backs this stuff up, I would recommend reading 'The 10,000 Year Explosion', by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, 'A Troublesome Inheritance' by Nicolas Wade, and 'The Bell Curve', by Charles Murray.


https://www.amazon.com/10-000-Year-Explosion-byHarpending/dp/B006J4LGD6


https://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-History/dp/0143127160/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CAWJC6Z2AZSADXQFYNND


https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299