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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3188)1/9/2006 11:04:28 PM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (2) of 219230
 
Frankly, I'm getting bored with this. You don't seem to understand evolution and selection. Intelligence is biological. The only way _mean_ intelligence can increase is by selection. There are no significant selection pressures on the human species in this phase of our evolution. If anything, according to your own beliefs there should be a lowering of the mean, a slight effect resulting from the tendency of the wealthier (and according you, more intelligent) to have fewer offspring.

You seem to hang your argument on the idea that more intelligent get together with more intelligent to reproduce. But you ignore the concommitant fact that less intelligent must therefore be mating with less intelligent - and cancelling out the supposed effect on _mean_ intelligence.
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