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Originally Posted by Ouroboros
In another example, the researchers noted that in China and most of Africa, few people can digest fresh milk into adulthood. Yet in Sweden and Denmark, the gene that makes the milk-digesting enzyme lactase remains active, so almost everyone can drink fresh milk, explaining why dairy farming is more common in Europe than in the Mediterranean and Africa, Harpending says.
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This assumes that the gene would've shut off anyway even with dairy included in the diet from an early age, which no one's succesfully demonstrated.
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Those who were smarter succeeded, grew wealthy and had bigger families to pass on their genes, they suggested. That evolution also is linked to genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher in Jews.
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This lends itself to ignoring cultural leanings to induce intelligence, rather than innate. Even those who didn't score a lot of wealth would still survive well into adulthood and still have childred, ergo not be removed from the genepool.
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The new study was funded by the Department of Energy, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the Unz Foundation, the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin.
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We'll see how these three hold in their opinion after there's a real president [if we get one] appointing experts there.