Doctor Adam Rutherford, who has a PhD you know, is bravely standing up against racism. Lately on Twitter he's been talking the Norwich DNA. This proves that Jews (on average) aren't smart, or at least weren't in the late AD 1200s. Thus he leaves us with Kevin MacDonald and with Ron Unz, who impute Jewish success to tribalism and to gentile gullibility.
Er. Based?
Gregory Cochran, who alongside the late Harpending in The 10000 Year Explosion had touted the mid-2000s-era Ashkenazi genetics, has taken this as a challenge. He's looked into the genetics of the Norwich victims. He finds that the four mutations in question don't fall in the brain. So conceding the AD 1200s to Rutherford (and to MacDonald).
I'll replyguy that we are here talking direct genetics. A gene retarding puberty to (say) 14 years should force a scholarly career even upon an IQ-100. If only on account the kid can't work the farm and/or get married off.
Also (Cochran does note this much) nobody's looked for the non-deleterious mutations as affect intelligence.
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