I've written a long, grandiose thread on Northwest European mental distinctiveness you might find interesting: @akarlin88 @Steve_Sailer @bronzeagemantis @espressosoldo @gcochran99
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If NW Europeans really do possess distinct mental advantages they would have to be of very recent origin, within the last 5,000 years or so.
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There are three traits I know of where Northwest Europeans really do represent a worldwide extreme: lactose tolerance, frontal lobe size, and a low waist to hip ratio. I think all three are related and complement each other.
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Northwest Europeans grow up thinking of lactose intolerance as a disease, but it’s the worldwide norm everywhere outside of Cowland. EIGHTY-ONE percent of Czechs are lactose intolerant. https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/9111b7c5-75ea-4d6c-83e1-8094826e776a/gr3.gif …
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That Czech number should jump out at you, because cattle have been around for ages in Eastern Europe. I actually think they were much more lactose tolerant in the recent past, and that their shift away from it coincided with a dramatic brachycephalization.
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Before about 1100, today’s bulldog headed Poles had cephalic indices that were lower than the modern Scandinavian average. Then, something amazing happened.pic.twitter.com/fuQ4Dzz6dc
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That's simplistic to the point of being offensive. We invented reason and we are still the only ones capable of using it properly. Most Korean "engineers" think your blood type dictates your destiny ffs!
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Source on the frontal lobe size claim? Very interesting
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There are citations further down the thread; for some dumb Twitter reason certain people can only see the first five or so tweets.
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I can tell you for sure that lactose intolerance is far more common in Scandinavia than in Spain.
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Interesting theory. Lactase persistence is also widely spread in pastoralist African and Middle Eastern cultures, e.g 90+% in the Tutsi. Do you have in mind methods to test this idea for falsification/confirmation?
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Further down the thread I talk a bit about dairy consuming Mongols and how in them you also see the NW European pattern of low waist to hip ratio and excellent rote memories. I would guess that an underlying shared mechanism is dlpfc overgrowth, something you’d see in a scan.
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