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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58226)	11/23/2009 7:27:15 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

>The point of it all [apart from curiosity which is a good enough reason] is that superlative brainpower is so valuable that it's worth finding the genes that make it so. Looking for the source is a good idea and my theory is that looking around north west India is a good place to start because there are so many people.> Maurice, Try searching among this community that traces itself back to an area around Indus. en.wikipedia.org If you still follow cricket you must be familiar with Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar - two five foot something batsmen who showed tremendous concentration and technique, ending up to be the highest scorers in the game. -Arun

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58226)	11/23/2009 10:00:51 PM
From: Webster Groves	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

<the father of all non-Africans having left Africa only 30,000 years ago and the mother of all non-Africans only 90,000 years ago> I have heard on standing up a date, but 60,000 years is a long time waiting for the phone to ring. wf

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58226)	11/24/2009 2:07:45 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

Maurice - not to dwell on the subject to much, I would like to add that about the time that the Jewish community mentioned in the Rhine area in Germany started to be established one Kingdom and an Empire where falling apart - the Kingdom of Jerusalem (who chased the remaining Jews from the Holy Land) and the Khazar Empire at the hands of Mongolian hoards, emerging Russians and Byzantine Empire. Those events which happen several generations before the date mentioned induced Jewish refuges movements between others into Germany. (Katherine the Great of Russia tried to resettled the empty land of Eastern Khazars with Germans – which proved to be very successful within the confines of the Volga Basin only to be deported to Kazakhstan and other parts of Siberia by Stalin) Further it is assumed that the people who established the Jewish faith their linage is from today's Northern Iraq / Tabriz region and Egypt. What is now Israel and Jordan was many millennia a waste land populated by people who could not even establish the minimum of civilization of the times which proves of little brain power. Further it should not be mistaken between original genetic linage and parallel genetic linage or reference genetic linage those are my 2 cents

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58226)	1/30/2010 12:48:48 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217927

Limited gene pools are no good. The lack of diversity makes the group of individuals be it by a disease and wipe out them all at once.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58226)	1/30/2010 1:06:57 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217927

Groupthink is the equivalent of limited gene pool. The economic upheaval affects the limited group. Groupthink is "an open, articulate philosophy which holds that group values are not only expedient but right and good as well." Thus Anglos will fall all together: US, UK, New Zealand and Australia. Euroland, as a whole, have been for the past 30 years creating a group that think alike. See your symptoms here in this list Symptoms of groupthink To make groupthink testable, Irving Janis devised eight symptoms indicative of groupthink (1977). Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking. Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions. Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, disfigured, impotent, or stupid. Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of "disloyalty". Self censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus. Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement. Mind guards — self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information. Groupthink, resulting from the symptoms listed above, results in defective decision making. That is, consensus-driven decisions are the result of the following practices of groupthinking[5] Incomplete survey of alternatives Incomplete survey of objectives Failure to examine risks of preferred choice Failure to reevaluate previously rejected alternatives Poor information search Selection bias in collecting information Failure to work out contingency plans. Janis argued that groupthink was responsible for the Bay of Pigs 'fiasco' and other major examples of faulty decision-making. The UK bank Northern Rock, before its nationalisation, is thought to be a recent major example of groupthink.[5] In such real-world examples, a number of the above groupthink symptoms were displayed. en.wikipedia.org