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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (210325)	7/1/2007 7:14:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 793957

Further to that. Of non-African populations, something like 20% is in the "smart fraction" category with wide variation across different countries. For African countries it's something like 1% or 2%. We can calculate the end result as it all averages out in the long run. "Long" being hundreds of years, which is a LOT of time in human history. Genetic engineering and Peak People will be much more interesting before things smooth out [not that they ever have and won't other than more or less as happened over 30,000 years]. 5 billion at 20% smart fraction 1 billion at 2% smart fraction Right now, 20% of the world is African-descended. But only 2% of them fit into the smart fraction. Crunching the numbers, that means that when the genetic winnowing is done and assuming there are only the smart fractions left around the world, there would be 1 billion from non-African and 20 million African. That assumes other genes are equal. Which they aren't. Look at India go for example. A huge population explosion, exceeding that of many countries although their smart fraction is low. There's more to life than "smart fraction" as the population of ants and mice demonstrates. In the human realm though, over 100,000 years, it has a good track record. Women say they prefer intelligent men. The Flynn Effect suggests that's true. Mqurice

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