From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 15:44:58 MDT
I haven't read all of the background on the discussions re:
The Bell Curve so I don't know if any of this has been
discussed.
I'll point out some things I "believe" (in that I think
the evidence has come from "reliable" sources).
Probably 50-70% of intelligence is "heritable" (similar
to longevity). Obviously both nutrition and environmental
"richness" will contribute to intelligence.
A recent study from a group at MIT I think found that
there are large chromosomal regions that tend to stay
together over evolutionary periods. So *if* a gene
for skin color, eye color, hair type, or any of the
other traits we associate with "race" happens to be
in close proximity to some of the genes involved in
intelligence (we *know* for certain that we have genes
involved in memory) then there may be a propensity
for those paired genes to appear together in certain
populations.
But getting into intense discussions about "The Bell Curve"
at this point seems to be an exercise hardly worth the effort.
There is genotype and phenotype and until you have some
really hard data about both of those then these discussions
are more futile than Don Quixote challenging the giants.
(A random google URL discussing Don Quixote and Zen...
http://www.dragoncliffzencenter.org/Don%20Quixote%20and%20the%20Adven.htm
all bow down before the great God Google... For ve has
invormation we did not ever know we would need.)
Robert
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