Chanda Chisala: the IQ gap is no longer a black-white issue http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/ … I had no idea how well black Africans were doing in UK
@ixaos nevertheless, thank you for the reference to "Устав о Брацех." i HAVEN'T looked enough at the history of mating patterns in russia...
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@hbdchick I'm not an expert at all ;) But it seems that there is lack of data on the issue. However Russia adopted Byzantine laws in XI cent -
@ixaos well, incompletely, i suspect. there were such laws in england in the 600s, for eg., but enforcement didn't happen 'til much later. -
@hbdchick I meant in Russia. Especially before 11th century -
@ixaos ...avoiding cousin marriage, and that is not until the 900s -- *at the earliest* (and it, no doubt, truly started later). that is... -
@hbdchick don't agree abt that. W/o solid data hard to say abt abundance of cousin marriage, pre-Christian or after -
@ixaos well, you'll have to talk to the historians about that. (~_^) (hard data would of course be better but this's all we've got for now.) -
@hbdchick yes I understand, but it seems you write abt that in more definite terms, but in fact it rather speculated, that's my complaint) -
@ixaos ...the intervening 1000 years or so? using western europe as a model (which might not be right), my guess is that it probably took... - 17 more replies
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@hbdchick but my main point is that you can't make a conclusion based just on law w/o actual knowledge how common was cousin inbreeding -
@ixaos well, i don't know specifically how common it was anywhere in northern europe before christianity because there simply aren't any...
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