Comments on: The search for a genetic grail http://www.ratdiary.com/2006/06/29/the-search-for-a-genetic-grail/ Homo homini rodentius est Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:20:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Len Feingold http://www.ratdiary.com/2006/06/29/the-search-for-a-genetic-grail/#comment-259 Len Feingold Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:24:03 +0000 http://www.ratdiary.com/?p=46#comment-259 Fact: Populations isolated from another developed different physical characteristics, egs, Africans don't look like Eskimos. This is explained by natural selection.So it is not a stretch to think that intellectual or temperment might also vary in different populations. There is suggestive of such in Nicholas Wade's new book. You are correct that biology is not necessarily destiny. We live in a world where physical prosthetics and educational prosthetics compensate for biological limitations. So we teach biologically impaired to read etc.by using creative and intensive techniques, egs autism or slow learners. So although is not necessarily that biology is not destiny it does exclude that biology is a variable influencing how we behave. Men are stronger than woman for the most part and if lifted weights men for the most part would win. When it comes to intellectual and tempermental differneces between racial groups it is not so easy to tease out if genetic differences are a significant variable. Asians score higher on SAT. One has tease out cultural factors and the possibility of selective immigration, that is, those at right side of normal curve are those who emigrated. Regardless why is it so radical to assume that there are not genetic didfrences in the make of genes in different racial groups. Such does not mean that biology is destiny but a variable not to be dismissed as insignificant. Fact: Populations isolated from another developed different physical characteristics, egs, Africans don’t look like Eskimos. This is explained by natural selection.So it is not a stretch to think that intellectual or temperment might also vary in different populations. There is suggestive of such in Nicholas Wade’s new book.

You are correct that biology is not necessarily destiny. We live in a world where physical prosthetics and educational prosthetics compensate for biological limitations. So we teach biologically impaired to read etc.by using creative and intensive techniques, egs autism or slow learners. So although is not necessarily that biology is not destiny it does exclude that biology is a variable influencing how we behave. Men are stronger than woman for the most part and if lifted weights men for the most part would win.

When it comes to intellectual and tempermental differneces between racial groups it is not so easy to tease out if genetic differences are a significant variable. Asians score higher on SAT. One has tease out cultural factors and the possibility of selective immigration, that is, those at right side of normal curve are those who emigrated.

Regardless why is it so radical to assume that there are not genetic didfrences in the make of genes in different racial groups. Such does not mean that biology is destiny but a variable not to be dismissed as insignificant.

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