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To: longnshort who wrote (706359)	3/29/2013 10:21:55 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1578704

Hi longnshort; Re Neanderthals and violence and blacks and evolution and all that. I think evolution effects the gene pool over much shorter time periods than the thousands of years ago that Neanderthals were around. And if you go back a thousand years or so, the archeological record will show that whites were pretty darned violent. My suspicion is that the Neanderthal genes themselves are just a marker for who your ancestors are that happens to correlate nicely with subsaharan Africa. Referring to the Washington Post article I linked in that shows that whites kill themselves while blacks kill other people, and that the difference is enormous, maybe there's an evolutionary effect that comes from societies where there's a lot of access to weapons. A society that has lots of weapons (and white culture has been this way for thousands of years) means that when you get really angry, blood is easily shed. For example, the French court invented butter knives because they had too many stabbings at the dinner table. This way they kept blunt knives around except for the shorter times when real knives were necessary for cutting meat. When you kill someone you don't just remove them from the gene pool. Due to punishment, there's a pretty good chance that you'll remove yourself as well. So the ubiquity of weapons caused white people to evolve to keep control of their temper. But slaves don't have access to weapons. They can get as angry as they want without eliminating themselves from the gene pool. All of a sudden they can grab a gun and the next thing you know someone's dead and someone's in jail. My observation of the South is that people there tend to be a lot more polite than they are in places up North where few people are armed. -- Carl