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Originally Posted by Denie
I think the only role genetics play in a persons intelligence is simply the ability, or enhanced ability, to absorb and retain information.
If one is going to suggest that a race was bred for physical brawn rather than intelligence, what criteria was used to assess intelligence? How is it that a person with greater physical features is somehow less intelligent than a person with lesser physical features? Does this also mean that another race was bred for intelligence?
Intelligence is gained by a broad collection of retained information and to a finer point, the ability to [i]recall[i] said information at any given time.
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It is not unreasonable to suggest that different environments and/or living conditions were selective for different genetic traits in the human population. One environment could have been selective for speed, the other for creativity, the other for skin color or the ability to produce vitamin D at suboptimal levels of solar radiation, or for the ability to live and function in a certain social structure.