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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Great threads, and I'll try to find time to shill them on my blog - but what do you think about starting your own blog? I don't think Twitter is the best platform for this. And,
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That was my first inclination, but I thought that since no one knew who the fuck I was, I had to build a little bit of a following first. You can post all of these, part of these on your blog and I'd be happy as hell because it would save the me the trouble. The tweets are saved.
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I find your threads amazing both in terms of the facts and the inner logic. It would be nice to have a more structured and independent way to read them, though.
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Thanks for the kind words man, maybe I can find a way to work something out with Unz
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