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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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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Replying to @crimkadid @rasmansa
WTF you're right lmao.pic.twitter.com/uvyvarqjEP
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