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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (64147)	5/23/2005 6:41:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Speaking of bell curves and tails, during my university days there was what they called a dead-dinosaur graph of student examination results. I forget which lecturer showed the dead-dinosaur graph, but what happens is that the main student body of mediocrity clusters around the main peak, but out on the right, instead of a tail, there's a bump up into a head of bright and studious students who get top results. The tail is at the zero end. I think that has macro consequences in that people in general cluster around the main body, but some form a clump at the dinosaur's head and given time they separate off into another species. That's my theory anyway, yet to be proved. I just made it up, so don't ask me for sources. Ashkenazi Jews are such a clump, it seems, though still human. Humans in general are such a clump, which has subsequently grown vastly, which separated off from our chimpoid ancestors long ago. Brahmins and Dalits are not supposed to mix so that's a work in process. South Africa's attempt at two species was given up. USA slavery ended. Mqurice