It doesn't address any of the issues mentioned in that thread you linked, just mentions one about genetic distance and then ignores it.
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The point being what, that the paper mistakes a general intellectual advantage in Middle Easterners for a specifically Ashkenazi one? That might work, if like with N. Europeans and height, there clear indicators that Middle Easterners were smarter than Euros. There aren't though.
The fact that South Italians and Ashkenazi Jews possess very similar proportions of South European vs. Middle Eastern ancestry and yet dramatic differences in mental ability is strong evidence for selection, not the other way around.
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Not talking about the general proposition of selection for intelligence, talking abput whether one paper crossed its t’s and dotted its lower-case j’s
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Well, since it is impossible for people to admit some obvious conclusions without suffering professional death, argument is hobbled.
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