To: Metacomet who wrote (95853 ) 10/25/2012 4:38:36 PM From: Maurice Winn 11 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to MC, you have probably misunderstood the comments about people with lots of melanin being less intelligent than people with less. A racist would say that it's probably because you are contaminated with melanin which has drained the proteins from your brain. But that would not be true. If we assume "dumber" means "less intelligent" and "less intelligent" means "a shortage of particular problem solving skills" then these things are measurable and have in fact been measured by actual scientifically literate people who are capable of measuring such things. lagriffedulion.f2s.com It isn't highly definitive as it's by country. Within countries there are groups which are quite distinct. For example, in north west India there is an area where there are absurdly smart people lurking = the all-time world record champions. From them were derived Ashkenazi Jews who combined that DNA with bedouin and other DNA across the middle east as far as Morocco to come up with Einsteinian level mental horsepower, which migrated from Israel into Europe and then across to the USA where they do superlative work, powering the USA to pre-eminence.
