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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This is the Big One: the “why are Northwest Europeans so...different from everyone else?” post. I’m going to argue that they really do possess a significant mental advantage over other people, a result of frontal lobe overgrowth enabled by lactose tolerance.pic.twitter.com/le5w4XAXx4
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Back in 2000 or so, there were lots of Nordicist attempts to explain NW European advantages by invoking ancient hunter gatherers. These arguments run into the problem that it's NE Europeans, like Latvians, who possess the highest amount of this ancestry, not Isaac Newton.
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Since 2010 some people have made the assumption that maybe NW Europeans have the highest amount of Indo-European steppe blood; again they don't and again Latvians are #1. Here's a nice spreadsheet from the great Davidski illustrating the point:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g-cEJmS9cZ6r-_9p0qj1f2qszxiJbactk89DOd0TlHg/edit#gid=1320636554 …
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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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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'm going to write a post you'll like explaining the high intelligence of the Finns, English, and North Italians as a byproduct of selection against schizophrenia: the English and NIs because of long urbanization, the Finns because they live so far north without eating fish.
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Instead of long, I should have said "dense", because England used to be quite rural. I suppose you know how the Alps force Italians to cluster into cities, just as in ancient Greece where a similar selection probably took place.
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