how about pre-history? in our evolutionary development, surely our G factor increased from our ape-like ancestors

as soon as we became "human," we all stopped?

what of the difference in IQ after the divergence of the races?

different environments caused a divergence of development in human beings

it would be surprising if everyone's IQ ended up being the same through their long period of separated development

Oh there's probably divergence

different environments resulted in different challenges to survival and different optimal social orders

but not enough to matter

resulting in different cultures

IQ is best considered on an individual basis really

does anyone have data on racial iq diffrences over time?

I disagree. Groups behave a bit more deterministically based on IQ

over recent history, maybe

Well let me ask you a question

look up the Flynn effect

Is IQ all that matters to a society's direction and decisions?

nope

no, I think personality is a factor as well

as well as a host of other things, like the historical narrative and philosophy which may form the basis of those decisions

however those two not necessarily independent of those traits

Yeah so they are factors

But how big a factor?

well, for example, Asians have higher IQ than Caucasians, but they are likely more collectivist due to a personality difference

because I'm pretty sure that the existing environment (society, economy, local land's resources) are bigger

well... the existing the environment was developed to a great extent by the people that live in it

that's a unique aspect of humans, we affect our own environment

to such a degree that it affects our evolutionary direction

what about the fact the communism is wide spread in Asia while orginating from eroupe.

it did not originate from Europeans.

It did

marxs?

but that's a side point

Marx was Jewish

wew

lad

but did the jews not inhrate a lot of europen genes by being there for a longtime.

The Ashkenazi Jews kept to themselves mostly

within other societies

to preserve their ethnicity and culture

k

leaving that point asside