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Say, more of them corresponding to emotional intelligence on the X chromosome and more correspondence with spatial and abstract reasoning on the Y?
Cooperation - the process of working together to the same end.
Cooperation - is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common, mutual, or some underlying benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.
In economics cooperation - the formation and operation of cooperatives. also known as co-ops
Experience and natural selection also count for a lot. Folks that left Africa faced new challenges that selected survivors. The stay behinds, not so much.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
There also seems to be quite a bit of evidence that subsaharan Africans are, on average, genetically not as smart as most other groups.
Neither of these likely facts may be spoken in polite company, of course, but patrick.net was never polite company, lol.
But what if this could be changed with deliberate genetic engineering? Several of the mutations accounting for higher Jewish intelligence are known. If you could alter your children to have the genetic variants associated with increased intelligence, would you do it?
I'm guessing that in the long run, people will indeed deliberately alter their genes for higher intelligence. And maybe that's not a bad thing, though the unintended consequences could be huge.
I suppose this is one of the issues brought up by the movie Gattaca.