Neanderthals were brachycranial (when measured from the middle of the forehead instead of the brow ridges) and their mitochondrial eve (mtdna haplogroup UK and maybe haplogroup D) was smarter than cro-magnon mitochondrial eve. I'm still trying to figure out which Y-DNA group(s) is (are) neanderthal, but the father doesn't really pass on his traits as much as the mother does (as a general rule).
I believe that cranial index is very highly correlated with fluid reasoning because neanderthals are a very small minority in a world where the average IQ is said to be 79.
I also doubt that there was a common mitochondrial ancestor to all neanderthals and all cromagnons... that is, I don't think that neanderthals are related to chimpanzees at all because they look a lot less like them than cro-magnons do.
Intriguingly, most Europeans today share a matriline with most Palestinian Arabs. That is, the mtdna of those two groups are closer to each other than either is to Ashkenazi Jews so I guess if Hagar had had a daughter, most Europeans alive now would be descended from her. Or I guess that most europeans alive today are descended from the same matriline as Hagar was. The aforementioned indicates that most europeans alive today were meant by the Bible to be slaves to private owners because the former are stronger in will and of inferior intelligence.
I'm pretty sure my matrilineage was not neanderthal and I hate myself for it.
How could anyone think that cranial index isn't correlated >=.7 with IQ?
That's what boggles my mind.
I believe that cranial index is very highly correlated with fluid reasoning because neanderthals are a very small minority in a world where the average IQ is said to be 79.
I also doubt that there was a common mitochondrial ancestor to all neanderthals and all cromagnons... that is, I don't think that neanderthals are related to chimpanzees at all because they look a lot less like them than cro-magnons do.
Intriguingly, most Europeans today share a matriline with most Palestinian Arabs. That is, the mtdna of those two groups are closer to each other than either is to Ashkenazi Jews so I guess if Hagar had had a daughter, most Europeans alive now would be descended from her. Or I guess that most europeans alive today are descended from the same matriline as Hagar was. The aforementioned indicates that most europeans alive today were meant by the Bible to be slaves to private owners because the former are stronger in will and of inferior intelligence.
I'm pretty sure my matrilineage was not neanderthal and I hate myself for it.
How could anyone think that cranial index isn't correlated >=.7 with IQ?
That's what boggles my mind.
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