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True or False
- Race does not exist - a black person is just a white person with a suntan and wooly hair.
- All the races are equally intelligent.
- White racism is responsible for black failures.
- Africans were the first modern humans
- Humans evolved in Africa from an African ape.
- The people living today who are most closely related to apes live in the Amazon jungle.
- A woman is always more closely related to her own child than she is to any other child.
If you answered “True” to these questions, when you read this book drink a glass of wine while listening to a recording of the ocean surf.
The author is a retired patent attorney who lives on a small wildlife refuge on an island in upstate of New York. A perpetual student, he has degrees in math (BS), law (JD), economics (MA), physics (BA), and chemistry (BA). He is an amateur composer (www.whiskeyrebellion.us) and has written books on Austrian economics (www.purelogic.us), natural rights (www.naturalrights.us), and anarchy (www.anarchism.net/steppes.htm).
-Book Review-
Anybody who's bothered to research race and IQ, or even more generally the nature/nurture debate, knows that just because a lot of smart people, even experts, believe something doesn't mean it's true. The story of human origins may be one of those things. The story goes that 60,000 years ago modern humans left Africa and over time settled the continents, wiping out the more primitive member of genus Homo in the process. Richard D. Fuerle doesn't buy it.
For most laymen OoA sounds convincing because we're told that it's based on genetic data. One of the main points is that Africans have the most genetic diversity of any living population. The population with the most diversity is assumed to be the older one. Let's say that there are two populations, A and B. B has 5 possible alleles on a certain gene and A has 20 including the 5 in B.
OoA assumes that population A is older and population B was the break off population, being a subset group and having taken only a portion of the alleles with them. But that's not necessarily the case. Population B may have suffered a catastrophic accident that knocked out some of their genetic diversity (the ice ages). Also, population A's territory might've been invaded and acquired the genetic diversity that way. OoE says that that's what happened and the variance in the DNA of Africans comes from Eurasian invaders. Also, OoA needs to assume descent in order to prove it. If one population didn't descend from the other then the genetic diversity argument can't be used.
The book deals with many more technical criticisms of the genetic basis for OoA.
The idea that the genetic diversity between Africans is due to invaders from Euarasia is backed up by some of the traits of different Africans. NE Africans like Ethiopians resemble Caucasians and Bushmen have the slanted eyes of East Asians.
All these populations have low IQs, which means that after the Eurasians invaded Africa their intelligence dropped. This suggests that intelligence is maladaptive in Africa.
In nature there are specialized and generalized populations. Think of the latter as a Swiss army knife, species that can do a lot but nothing too well. A specialized species has one niche, like a parasite that lives off a certain host. Specialized populations tend to evolve where climate is stable (i.e. Africa) and generalized populations where climate changes (i.e. Eurasia). It's easier to go from generalized to specialized than the other way around. This means that Eurasians were more likely to evolve into Africans than vice versa. Africans, specialized for the tropics, were less likely to be able to conquer those living in seasonal climates and evolve into Eurasians than Eurasians, generalized by seasonal climates, were to invade Africa and become a tropic specialized population. Also, humans are the most generalized species there is and by that reasoning most likely evolved in a changing climate.
Also, there's the issue of selection pressure. erectus and Neanderthals were well adapted to the Northern climates. If we believe OoA, we have to ask how did Africans, never having left the tropics, evolve the traits to wipe out populations that had evolved in their respective environments for hundreds of thousands or millions of years? The Neanderthal was no slouch. He was stronger and had a bigger skull than any group of humans living today (as mentioned above, this may be due more to bulk than IQ but regardless they had a 200 cc advantage over modern Africans). In many ways Eurasian pre-human populations were more advanced than modern Africans.
Charles Murray said, "When it comes to race, science is corrupt." Nobody with a clear view of the intellectual climate can believe that every theory of human origins has been given an equal hearing. For the interested reader, section IV of this book is devoted to the author's political and philosophical ideas including entertaining rants against miscegenation and egalitarianism.
This review simply scratches the surface of what's in this fascinating book. The story of human origins and race is more interesting than you think. The author tells us about the Australian pygmies, a short people not very well known due to political correctness, Baskop, a 30,000-10,000 ya skull found in South Africa with an 1860 cc brain that doesn't fit into any theory of human origins (besides maybe the one in this book), and how differences in sexual behavior between gorillas and orangoutangs and how they walk can shed light on the human past. Science is indeed corrupt and Erectus Walks Amongst Us is the best collection of politically incorrect information on where we came from available.
Originally posted by secretagent woooman
The IQ test (on which I scored in the genius level) is flawed and skewed in favor of white European culture, specifically the literate variation. It also does not represent axes of knowledge such as mechanics, visual schematics and social relationships on which nonwhites and non-Europeans vastly outperform whites.
Originally posted by secretagent woooman
The IQ test (on which I scored in the genius level) is flawed and skewed in favor of white European culture, specifically the literate variation. It also does not represent axes of knowledge such as mechanics, visual schematics and social relationships on which nonwhites and non-Europeans vastly outperform whites.
Originally posted by DaisyAnne
Oh dear.
I have seen a resurgence of thinly and inexpertly veiled racism lately.
It is currently taking refuge behind the buzzphrase "politically incorrect."
As if "politically incorrect" makes it alright.
It is not alright.
It is so far from alright that it occupies another planet.
I hope the author of this book, and all of you who agree with him, form your own little commune somewhere where you won't have to see anyone who isn't white.
That way, the rest of us (who are white, black, asian, blue, green. polka dotted and consider ourselves equals) could go about our daily lives without having to deal with this sort of rabid idiocy.
Intelligence, while highly respected in Western society, is not necessarily a survival trait.