Dr. Hart writes that “the overall evidence that there is a substantial genetic contribution to racial differences in average IQ is so great that no one would dispute the point if it were not an issue that aroused strong emotions on ideological grounds.”
There’s no evidence for the “racial IQ gap” being caused by genetics. It’s more likely caused by economic, social and environmental factors.
There are also human populations distinguished by how little they have contributed.
Yeah, and how do you know this can’t be explained by something other than “inherent inferiority”?
Metal working had been introduced from the north, but in all of black Africa there were no two-story buildings and no monuments to compare even with the stone statues of Easter Island.
Two words: Great Zimbabwe. Or do you cling to the long-discredited ideas that it must’ve been built by Phoenicians, or Arabs, or a lost Jewish tribe?
Madagascar is 250 miles off the African coast, but Africans never settled it. It was populated from 3,000 miles away by Southeast Asians who arrived around 500 AD.
Wrong. The Austronesians may have gotten there first, but Bantus started coming to Madagascar as early as the 6th century.
Africans continue to be largely incapable of absorbing the science and technology of others, and have not added to it.
George Washington Carver alone proves this is wrong.
Australian aborigines were even more primitive than Africans when whites first found them. They were living in the old stone age, which is to say they did not work metal and had no domesticated crops. They had invented one thing: the boomerang, which they used as a weapon.
And yet the Gunditjmara developed a sophisticated system of aquaculture. Maybe a lack of technological advancements isn’t necessarily a sign of inherent stupidity.
When the ocean rose, the Tasmanians were unable to cross the Bass Strait. During their 10,000 years of separation, they became even more primitive than before: They forgot how to make sewing needles and fishhooks.
Doesn’t this imply that cultural and environmental factors are more important than genetics?