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[–] 16 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Intelligence has a genetic component. Every single test we have that attempts to measure intelligence that we've checked for heritability shows that intelligence likely has a generic component. Furthermore, we know that some species are more intelligent than others. Given the demonstrable existence of Darwinian evolution, this implies that some populations of a species are more or less intelligent than another because that's a requirement for a speciation event that results in a species that's more intelligent than its cousin species.

Anyone who says otherwise is likely allowing their ideology to cloud their judgement.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    This exactly. Intelligence being heritable does not imply that any one particular population is more intelligent on average than another.

    “intelligence” is a pretty nebulous term to begin with

    This is also accurate, but I'm glossing over that because it's late and that fact is only tangentially relevant to the question.

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