Speciation among primates

Speciation among primates - current estimate for chimp-human split is 5 million years, we're separate species (not interfertile) so it must have taken less than 5 million years. I suspect it takes around 2 million years, depending on generation length. That would indicate that modern humans were interfertile with homo erectus and homo neanderthalis.Modern humans are obviously not speciated. According to the standard biologists' definition of a sub-species/race, that it's merely an in-breeding group visually distinct from other sub-species/races, we are obviously sub-speciated, as any geographically dispersed species will tend to be. -ViL

higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty

Financial distress, such as problems paying bills, going bankrupt or reaching credit card limits, is related to IQ scores not linearly but instead in a quadratic relationship. This means higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty.


http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2007/04/iq-and-wealth.html

The concept of "authenticity" -is racist.

culture

MARK STEYN

Snip....

The concept of "authenticity" -- that one's skin colour mandates particular behaviours, such as voting Democrat and supporting "affirmative action" -- is, of course, racist. But the peculiar touchiness of the black community on this question recurs again and again in Williams's book. "The defence of gangster rap, with its pride in guns and murder, was that it was all about 'keepin' it real,' " he writes. "In that stunning perversion of black culture, anyone who spoke against the self-destructive core of gangster rap was put down as acting white."
This is a fascinating theme whose significance extends far beyond music -- or, in this case, "music." We're encouraged these days to disdain ethnic stereotypes -- the Scots are stingy, the Germans humourless, etc. -- but, if one were to ascribe certain characteristics to particular ethnic groups, you'd be hard put to burden African-Americans with as many disabling pathologies as are currently touted under the justification of "keepin' it real." "Violence, murder, and self-hatred were marketed as true blackness -- authentic black identity," says Williams. "Keepin' it real" means the rapper Nelly making a video in which he swipes a credit card through his ho's butt. "Keepin' it real" means men are violent and nihilistic, women are "sluts, bobbing chicken heads, and of course bitches." "Keepin' it real," noted the writer Nick Crowe, equates, in effect, to "disempowerment." Because if being black means being a self-destructive self-gratifying criminal rutting machine, and building a career, settling down, getting a nice house in the suburbs, raising a family is acting white, that would seem to hand whitey an awful lot of advantages.

Si, si senor - the Brits are Spanish

the New Zealand Herald.

nzherald.co.nz

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Si, si senor - the Brits are Spanish

Friday September 22, 2006


LONDON - Don't tell the locals but the hordes of British holidaymakers visiting the Costa del Sol this summer were, in fact, returning to their ancestral home.

A team from Oxford University have discovered that the Celts, Britain's indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6000 years ago.

celt - blood - uk-

35 000 years ago the men of southern France and the Basque region hunted the wild bison, wooly rhinocerus, horse, and mammoth where they lived in tepees with the women and not in the painted caves according to popular belief. The women would have gathered wild fruits, seeds, and berries where they brought them back to thier campsite. They probably spent most of thier time in those dark tepees and only occasionaly did they most likely wander out of thier tepees to collect the fruit of the plains. The reason being for this is that after menstruation and child birth, they needed protection from the cold and other weather elements to raise and feed thier children. This is probably where the women, over thousands of years, obtained the recessive genotypes like lighter skin and hazel eyes, although not necessarily the dominate phenotype of the O+ blood factor which they most likely picked up 5-6000 years earlier when they ventured out of Siberia on thier way to northern and southern Europe. It is positively sure that a few of the O rhesus positive women joined the O rhesus negative tribe, but a lot of the women travelling to southern Europe just below the Swiss alps likely still had the O rhesus negative factor while those travelling north of the glaciated Swiss alps likely had the O rhesus positive factor. This may explain why a lot of Spanish and Italians presently have dark hair as opposed to the Germans and French who have lighter complexions and blond or blonde hair.

On poverty Steve Sailer

The problem with being poor today is not so much that you don't own enough goods but that you have to live around other poor people.

baculum oosik

http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2005/02/of-oosiks-and-blog-traffic-pz-meyers.html


Present a walrus Penis bone

Creationist Bible Evolution Os Penis Baculum

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/penis_evolution/P25/


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606174 Links

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?cmd=entry&id=606174BACULUM,

CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF
Alternative titles; symbols
OS PENIS, CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF

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Gilbert and Zevit (2001) pointed out that another genetic condition, affecting 100% of human males, is congenital lack of a baculum (os priapi; os penis).
Whereas most mammals (including common species such as dogs and mice)

and most other primates (except spider monkeys) have a penile bone, human males lack this bone and must rely on fluid hydraulics to maintain erections.

IQ ain't all -only horse power

The kind of mental skills the IQ test measured was like horsepower in a car engine. It tells you something but there's a whole lot more to know.

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r and K type : what I learned today because I read the comments at gnxp.com

In biology, there are two primary reproduction strategies. (all ref from google search)

The , "r-Type", is far more Darwinian in its approach

Opportunistic ( r-type)

smaller and simpler organisms will favor r - type reproduction ( lots of offspring ) ...

The r type reproductive strategy is basically to pump as much energy and resources .

r type strategy, ie rapid growth, precocious. sexual maturity and short life cycle, .

An r-type organism prefers quick reproduction,

The r-strategy means being very sexually active and having many offspring.

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"K-Type" means that the organism should have fewer offspring and put more effort into making sure those children survive.

- the idea is to have as much offspring as possible and the only the strongest will survive.

Equilibrial (K-type)

K-type. (few offspring, expensive care)

The K type strategy involves a large investment of resources in the


k type, with slow growth, late reproduc- ...

For a "K" type population, a certain level of intelligence, coupled with social groupings, is quite advantageous.

The K-strategy means having fewer offspring, but with both mother and father giving them more care.
Humans are the most K strategists of all species.

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For our purposes, r is a term in Wilson's equation (Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson) that stands for the natural rate of reproduction (the number of offspring).

The symbol K stands for the amount of care parents give to insure that their offspring survive.

Plants and animals have different life history strategies. Some are more r and others are relatively more K.


The key for understanding K-selection is the predictability of the environment. Tropical areas like Africa are less predictable because of parasites and sudden droughts. Therefore they select for an r-strategy rather than a K-strategy.


Ann Þ thanks a comment in G

Spanish girl example

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OK, so just to put a more human face on my account, here's one of my best net-friends from Barcelona. I won't say her name, or what her webpage is, etc., since I don't want to embarrass her. Aside from being stunningly beautiful (again, not the main issue), she's incredibly nonchalant and healthily silly -- much more so than I would expect of a US girl who looked like she does.

Australians are very old race/Ethnie/clad

The Australian-specific distribution of the five haplogroups identified indicates genetic isolation over a long period.

Ancestral connections within Australia are deeper than those reflected by known linguistic or culturally based affinities.

.......support a continuity of presence for the descendants of a founding population already established by 40,000 years ago.

SEE ALSO:

http://zescrap.blogspot.com/2006/02/analysis-shows-three-human-migrations.html

Harvard, Summers and The pussification of the academic man by fem-nazis and radical "wemyn"

thanks (to Kim _He shall remain Nameless) for the heading.

James D. Miller says
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=022206G

...snip...

Multicultural feminists hold that any statistical under-representation of women must be due to white male oppression.....to suggest otherwise would be analogous to the King of Saudi Arabia suggesting that Mohamed wasn't a prophet.....

...freedom of speech and freedom of inquiry often cause hurt feelings..
...social science and humanities departments .... lack intellectual diversity...
what would happen if the Danish government apologized for the cartoons, fired the editor of the paper that printed them,
and gave $50 million to the radical Islamic protestors who have demanded the heads of the cartoons' creators.
Islamic radicals across the world would become empowered and freedom of speech in Western civilization would be at risk...


BUT THEN YOU HAVE

http://www.dailypepper.com/mt/archives/000834.html

HERE WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENIUS AND GREAT.

Just because you know a PhD does not make you any different then if you were the friend of Einstein or Hawkins.
They, not you, are the genius and your brain (and mine also) is like that of a mouse beside theirs.

analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa

Feb. 2, 2006 — A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes — strongly — the 'Out of Africa' replacement theory.

SEE ALSO:


http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112221248/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

reveals an out-of-Africa expansion event at 1.9 million years ago.

Gene flow with isolation by distance was established between African and Eurasian populations by about 1.5 million years ago,

with no detectable interruptions since.

A second out-of-Africa expansion occurred about 700,000 years ago

, and involved interbreeding with at least some Eurasian populations.

A third out-of-Africa event occurred around 100,000 years ago,

and was also characterized by interbreeding,

black white yellow pink blue women men sex and attraction

Some one asks :

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the only white man who appreciates the beauty of a black woman, so it must be that black women don't care for white men .....

Must read for long discussion about black white yellow pink blue women men sex and attraction
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http://libertariangirl.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/03/white_men_black.html

Quetzalcoatl: The effects of a "crush" on someone...

Quetzalcoatl: The effects of a "crush" on someone...

...snip...
It refers to that fervent infatuation that one heterosexual woman develops for another woman who may seem impossibly sophisticated, gifted, beautiful or accomplished.

And while a girl crush is, by its informal definition, not sexual in nature, the feelings that it triggers - excitement, nervousness, a sense of novelty - are very much like those that accompany a new romance.

This is not a new phenomenon. Women, especially young women, have always had such feelings of adoration for each other.

Social scientists suspect such emotions are part of women's nature, feelings that evolution may have favored because they helped women bond with one another and work cooperatively.

Reminds me of jesse Jackson: lot of Jews there

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?issue=2006-02-11&id=7317
http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/2006/02/jackie-mason-on-muhammed-cartoons.html

Did you ever hear anybody say, "Don’t go into that neighbourhood, it is very dangerous, there are a lot of Jews there"?

Just seem to indicate that the more intelligent people are also wise and tranquil

Ann Þ