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Everybody is familiar with the stereotype, beloved of American coming-of-age movies centred around High Schools, of the Jocks and the Nerds. The Jocks are tall, muscular, testosterone-pumped sportsmen who, though appealing to girls and socially skilled, are not especially intelligent or academic. The Nerds are short, skinny and unattractive to girls but they do very well in school and are extremely intelligent (often more or less explicitly Jewish, as in Addams Family Values[1]). The “cope,” the way in which Nerds are taught to psychologically deal with this situation, is to tell themselves that, one day, the Nerds will be eminent and well-to-do, while the Jocks will most likely be pursuing some low-status job.
A fascinating new study in the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics has provided some evidence for this stereotype, and, indeed, found that European peoples, specifically, have managed to achieve the best of both worlds: the ideal Jock-Nerd balance. Perhaps this helps to explain the manifest extreme success of Europeans in relation to other races. It is particularly intriguing as you might actually expect the “cope” referred to above to be just that and to be empirically inaccurate. It certainly appears to be inaccurate at the individual level.
As I have explored in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism, at the individual level intelligence is part of a general Fitness Factor that has been strongly selected for across time, leading to different adaptive traits becoming pleiotropically related. In other words, there was positive selection for genetic physical health, mental health, pro-social behaviour and intelligence, so they became bundled together. Similarly, there was sexual selection, by females, for high-status (and thus intelligent) males, as these betokened adaptiveness and could provide them with resources, and for height, as taller men are more likely to win fights and survive.
This is a serious problem for the Jock-Nerd division and its related “cope.” The literature is telling us that intelligence is positively associated, in males, with height and it is more generally associated with being mentally stable (not a neurotic Nerd), socially-skilled, genetically healthy and physically fit, which would involve being attractive to girls and being good at sport. In fact, university students who are more intelligent are more likely to participate in sport while they are at university. We would expect males of low intelligence, by contrast, to be short, weak, unfit and neurotic.
But, at the group level, there are evolutionary mechanisms via which the stereotype might work. For example, in an unstable yet easy ecology, in which you could be wiped out at any minute, there is no point cooperating with people (as cooperation may never be repaid) and immediate needs are met. Accordingly, intelligence is not selected for. Height and muscularity will aid winning fights in a lethal environment, so they may well be selected for. By contrast, in a stable yet harsh environment, you must cooperate with people in order to survive, and your immediate needs are not met. This would cause intelligence to be strongly selected for and it may even pay to take bio-energetic resources away from height and muscularity and direct them towards growing a larger, thus more intelligent, brain.
This is something like what Italian anthropologist DavidePiffer finds in his Twin Research and Human Genetics study “Polygenic Selection and Environmental Influence on Adult Body Height: Genetic and Living Standard Contributions Across Diverse Populations.” There are genes that relate to your maximum and minimum possible height, with environment explaining where you end up between these two limits. This allows you to calculate polygenic scores for height; the prevalence of “tall alleles” in a population. Piffer, and his colleague the Danish researcher Emil Kirkegaard, analysed 5000 ancient European genomes, some of them dating back 12,000 years.
Bronze Age herders from the Eurasian Steppe (like the Yamnaya; the Indo-Europeans or Aryans) carried genetic variants for height, explaining why their skeletons often measure over 5 foot 8, in a context of poor nutrition. Piffer explains that Europe was first occupied by Western Hunter Gatherers. These people were reasonably tall but they weren’t very intelligent; they were low in polygenic scores for intelligence. They were then joined, and often displaced, by Anatolian farmers, the kinds of people who built Stonehenge. These people were shorter, in terms of genetics, but they were much more intelligent. So, here we see, in a sense, the Jock-Nerd idea: stupid tall people are displaced by clever, short ones. Height and intelligence are following divergent paths. The Anatolian farmers are smarter but they pay for this by being shorter. Indeed, farming – which compels you to plan and think about the future and thus to be more intelligent – seems to cause us to become more intelligent; those who are too stupid to farm are selected out.
Something changed around 3000 years ago when Steppe herders invaded much of Europe. These people were both tall and highly intelligent. In invading Europe, they made the areas where they had the most genetic influence, such as the Netherlands and Scandinavia, both very tall and very intelligent. With their influence, height went back up, after which it would have been selected for alongside intelligence and other markers of fitness.
Aryans, therefore, broke the Jock-Nerd mould, possibly because they were adapted to relative cold, which would militate in favour of heat-preserving larger bodies. They are both intelligent and tall, giving them two means of dominating other groups in the battle of group selection.
[1] from The Culture of Critique, Ch. 1:
A recent, perhaps trivial, example of this type of intellectual ethnic warfare is the popular movie Addams Family Values (released in November 1993), produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written by Paul Rudnick. The bad guys in the movie are virtually anyone with blond hair (the exception being an overweight child), and the good guys include two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes. (Indeed, having blond hair is viewed as a pathology, so that when the dark-haired Addams baby temporarily becomes blond, there is a family crisis.) The featured Jewish child has dark hair, wears glasses, and is physically frail and nonathletic. He often makes precociously intelligent comments, and he is severely punished by the blond-haired counselors for reading a highly intellectual book. The evil gentile children are the opposite: blond, athletic, and unintellectual. Together with other assorted dark-haired children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and white gentile children rejected by their peers (for being overweight, etc.), the Jewish boy and the Addams family children lead a very violent movement that succeeds in destroying the blond enemy. The movie is a parable illustrating the general thrust of Jewish intellectual and political activity relating to immigration and multi-culturalism in Western societies (see Ch. 7). It is also consistent with the general thrust of Hollywood movies. SAID (Ch. 2) reviews data indicating Jewish domination of the entertainment industry in the United States. Powers, Rothman and Rothman (1996, 207) characterize television as promoting liberal, cosmopolitan values, and Lichter, Lichter and Rothman (1994, 251) find that television portrays cultural pluralism in positive terms and as easily achieved apart from the activities of a few ignorant or bigoted miscreants.
Everybody is familiar with the stereotype, beloved of American coming-of-age movies centred around High Schools, of the Jocks and the Nerds. The Jocks are tall, muscular, testosterone-pumped sportsmen who, though appealing to girls and socially skilled, are not especially intelligent or academic. The Nerds are short, skinny and unattractive to girls but they do very well in school and are extremely intelligent (often more or less explicitly Jewish, as in Addams Family Values[1]). The “cope,” the way in which Nerds are taught to psychologically deal with this situation, is to tell themselves that, one day, the Nerds will be eminent and well-to-do, while the Jocks will most likely be pursuing some low-status job.
A fascinating new study in the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics has provided some evidence for this stereotype, and, indeed, found that European peoples, specifically, have managed to achieve the best of both worlds: the ideal Jock-Nerd balance. Perhaps this helps to explain the manifest extreme success of Europeans in relation to other races. It is particularly intriguing as you might actually expect the “cope” referred to above to be just that and to be empirically inaccurate. It certainly appears to be inaccurate at the individual level.
As I have explored in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism, at the individual level intelligence is part of a general Fitness Factor that has been strongly selected for across time, leading to different adaptive traits becoming pleiotropically related. In other words, there was positive selection for genetic physical health, mental health, pro-social behaviour and intelligence, so they became bundled together. Similarly, there was sexual selection, by females, for high-status (and thus intelligent) males, as these betokened adaptiveness and could provide them with resources, and for height, as taller men are more likely to win fights and survive.
This is a serious problem for the Jock-Nerd division and its related “cope.” The literature is telling us that intelligence is positively associated, in males, with height and it is more generally associated with being mentally stable (not a neurotic Nerd), socially-skilled, genetically healthy and physically fit, which would involve being attractive to girls and being good at sport. In fact, university students who are more intelligent are more likely to participate in sport while they are at university. We would expect males of low intelligence, by contrast, to be short, weak, unfit and neurotic.
But, at the group level, there are evolutionary mechanisms via which the stereotype might work. For example, in an unstable yet easy ecology, in which you could be wiped out at any minute, there is no point cooperating with people (as cooperation may never be repaid) and immediate needs are met. Accordingly, intelligence is not selected for. Height and muscularity will aid winning fights in a lethal environment, so they may well be selected for. By contrast, in a stable yet harsh environment, you must cooperate with people in order to survive, and your immediate needs are not met. This would cause intelligence to be strongly selected for and it may even pay to take bio-energetic resources away from height and muscularity and direct them towards growing a larger, thus more intelligent, brain.
This is something like what Italian anthropologist DavidePiffer finds in his Twin Research and Human Genetics study “Polygenic Selection and Environmental Influence on Adult Body Height: Genetic and Living Standard Contributions Across Diverse Populations.” There are genes that relate to your maximum and minimum possible height, with environment explaining where you end up between these two limits. This allows you to calculate polygenic scores for height; the prevalence of “tall alleles” in a population. Piffer, and his colleague the Danish researcher Emil Kirkegaard, analysed 5000 ancient European genomes, some of them dating back 12,000 years.
Bronze Age herders from the Eurasian Steppe (like the Yamnaya; the Indo-Europeans or Aryans) carried genetic variants for height, explaining why their skeletons often measure over 5 foot 8, in a context of poor nutrition. Piffer explains that Europe was first occupied by Western Hunter Gatherers. These people were reasonably tall but they weren’t very intelligent; they were low in polygenic scores for intelligence. They were then joined, and often displaced, by Anatolian farmers, the kinds of people who built Stonehenge. These people were shorter, in terms of genetics, but they were much more intelligent. So, here we see, in a sense, the Jock-Nerd idea: stupid tall people are displaced by clever, short ones. Height and intelligence are following divergent paths. The Anatolian farmers are smarter but they pay for this by being shorter. Indeed, farming – which compels you to plan and think about the future and thus to be more intelligent – seems to cause us to become more intelligent; those who are too stupid to farm are selected out.
Something changed around 3000 years ago when Steppe herders invaded much of Europe. These people were both tall and highly intelligent. In invading Europe, they made the areas where they had the most genetic influence, such as the Netherlands and Scandinavia, both very tall and very intelligent. With their influence, height went back up, after which it would have been selected for alongside intelligence and other markers of fitness.
Aryans, therefore, broke the Jock-Nerd mould, possibly because they were adapted to relative cold, which would militate in favour of heat-preserving larger bodies. They are both intelligent and tall, giving them two means of dominating other groups in the battle of group selection.
[1] from The Culture of Critique, Ch. 1:
A recent, perhaps trivial, example of this type of intellectual ethnic warfare is the popular movie Addams Family Values (released in November 1993), produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and written by Paul Rudnick. The bad guys in the movie are virtually anyone with blond hair (the exception being an overweight child), and the good guys include two Jewish children wearing yarmulkes. (Indeed, having blond hair is viewed as a pathology, so that when the dark-haired Addams baby temporarily becomes blond, there is a family crisis.) The featured Jewish child has dark hair, wears glasses, and is physically frail and nonathletic. He often makes precociously intelligent comments, and he is severely punished by the blond-haired counselors for reading a highly intellectual book. The evil gentile children are the opposite: blond, athletic, and unintellectual. Together with other assorted dark-haired children from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and white gentile children rejected by their peers (for being overweight, etc.), the Jewish boy and the Addams family children lead a very violent movement that succeeds in destroying the blond enemy. The movie is a parable illustrating the general thrust of Jewish intellectual and political activity relating to immigration and multi-culturalism in Western societies (see Ch. 7). It is also consistent with the general thrust of Hollywood movies. SAID (Ch. 2) reviews data indicating Jewish domination of the entertainment industry in the United States. Powers, Rothman and Rothman (1996, 207) characterize television as promoting liberal, cosmopolitan values, and Lichter, Lichter and Rothman (1994, 251) find that television portrays cultural pluralism in positive terms and as easily achieved apart from the activities of a few ignorant or bigoted miscreants.
