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• Disappointed
  December 15th, 2007 at 10:46 am

  Are white people the endpoint of human physical evolution? The graphic you’ve used is itself a piece of racist fantasy that reinforces Euro-types that they represent the preeminent expression of evolutionary fitness.

  This is claptrap.

  Concepts like temperment are inherently contested and have little explanatory value

  The claims made in the BBC piece generalized so far beyond whatever data they’ve mustered that at best it’s a excursion of psuedo-science. But I’d wager that it’s better understood as another piece of white racism passing for ignorance.

  These geneticists utilize a logic that’s not dissimilar from creationists. The zeal with which these folks dismiss the role culture plays is mind bongling.

• Poola
  December 15th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

  Hey maybe human obesity is then just another step of evolution!

• Edward
  December 15th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

  Let me summarize and second Disappointed’s comments. The interpretation is bullshit.

  As for the study itself, extrodanary claims require extrodanry proof. This falls far short.

• Johnald_Chaffinch
  December 15th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

  *extraordinary

  this is sensationalism on just one study.
  the author also was partly responsible for this other study - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Intelligence

  there’s nothing different from what you’d expect, there are inherited genetic differences over time, and that’s it.

• Chris
  December 16th, 2007 at 4:24 am

  or maybe the rate at which we release chemicals in nature is increasing gemetical modifications?…..

  I’m not saying for the study, but for the picture, I saw it when I was a naive [white] kid and did not understand more then evolution. I think I would have expected to find a Asian guy in the same picture in Japan for example… Saying it’s racist would be the same that saying it’s sexist because it’s picturing a man and not a woman.

• Lea
  December 16th, 2007 at 11:44 am

  sexist too

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