Humans, a small, unimpressive ape, had managed through ingenuity, luck, perseverance, and, perhaps most importantly, culture, to occupy an enormous and variegated territory from the sun-blasted land of the equator to the frozen tundra of Northern Eurasia.
There is also copious (but not conclusive) evidence that human populations vary in intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, partially because of genes (this view is often called “hereditarianism”).
Because this is the most incendiary of proposed traits that vary among populations, the simple fact that the overwhelming abundance of evidence supports a partial genetic etiology is hidden like a soft violin beneath the booming brass of moral outrage & character assassinations.
Russell Warne: (1) Spearman’s hypothesis; (2) Measurement invariance; (3) Relationship of within and between-group differences; (4) GWAS data; (5) Admixture studies. Evidence strongly supports the contention that group differences are partially genetic in origin.
Not decisive, but suggestive. Coherent with Darwinism, the single most productive research paradigm in the biological/psychological sciences. Researchers should study & discuss it more candidly.
The truth is that human populations, like human individuals, do not have equal talents or traits. And the ardent desire to equalize them will end not in enlightenment, but in tyranny.
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