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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (66861)	10/5/2010 2:54:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217867

BS, that's just cultural acclimatisation: < When I was a kid.. Most Chinese had a restaurant or a laundry or did cheap labour.... Evolution of the mind is happening quite fast.. Now... Engineers, doctors etc. > It's not evolution of the mind. Note that you confirmed his point - engineers, doctors... You are reporting NOT on Chinese, who are people who live in China in the context he was describing. Smart Fraction Theory was about GDP per capita in countries, not in self-selected small groups of migrants who are normally quite different from the mass who stay in situ. He wasn't making a prediction of about a particular Chinese person who has migrated to Toronto compared with one who has grown up there, or even 1000 of such people. He was pointing out the effect of verbal intelligence on national GDP per capita. And yes, mongrelisation is a benefit. That's why primate females hop the fence for mating purposes. In general, mating OUTSIDE the tribe is a good thing. That way a group of females gets a diverse range of Y chromosome carriers to go out and do battle on behalf of her DNA. Monoculture genetics are great for producing huge crops of corn, but they are vulnerable to some onslaught. If a field of corn has a huge range of DNA, any particular onslaught will still leave some standing to take over. Maybe that's why sars did such a good job on Hong Kong and Chinese in general but bounced off Africa, India and the rest of the world = wide genetic variation meaning not many people are vulnerable in some places compared with others. H5N1 with a 70% mortality rate was much more murderous than sars. If that had got going, or something similar gets going, it might find homogeneous populations are delicious and die in droves, but Africans are resilient. With the huge 6 billion human population and very rapid communication of diseases on A380 aircraft, we are sitting ready to be attacked en masse. My 2037 Peak People prediction might suddenly be brought forward. We are now like the little boy who cried wolf. Sars was a scare, but not really a problem. H5N1 avian flu looked dangerous but fizzled. H1N1 swine flu became pandemic, with most people in New Zealand having now had it, but it was not unusually fatal as flu goes. Some complacency is no doubt setting in. But nature never sleeps. It is relentless, infinitely variable, and merciless. The father of all non-Africans was only 30,000 years ago. I wonder how long ago the father of all Africans was. Non-Africans are comparatively cloned and northern Chinese even more so. Mqurice