Gorilla Statue Removed After Complaints It Was ‘Racially Insensitive’

Care to do some real science here - beginning with at least labeling your x-axis and y-axis, and sourcing the diagram?

I could draw the same thing as you may have and communicate something equally as meaningless.

The leading lights of Darwinism - Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, and most evolutionary biologists agree with you that all races are the same. In fact they don't even admit to the existence of "races".

Care to provide quotations to back yourself up, particularly where those sorry asses Gould and Dawkins are concerned?

Gould was about as racist an asshole as any "evolutionary biologist" must be who shares his views. I quoted Gould directly. Racism is at the heart of what they pass off as the basis for their "science." Care to show how anyone of these "leading lights" decries or decried his former writings in this regard?

Only evolutionary indoctrinated idiots still connect one's jaw structure, brain size, and melanin content with a subject's intelligence.

Some consider Stephan Hawking to be quite intelligent, but by yours and Huxley's coarse metric his jaw structure should suggest otherwise. Neandertals whose brains were 150 to 200 cm3 larger on average than today's average humans by Huxley's coarse metric should by his and Darwin's own logic have been intelligent enough to figure out a way to preserve their "race."

Huxley and Darwin together are simply disreputable. Suggest you step away from endorsing anything Huxley ever espoused in his Lay Sermons and in other examples of his personal embellishments.

As for Gould - and to his credit - all I can say is that he was unashamedly and intellectually honest about his core racism.

Whoever came up with that silly diagram you posted should be as intellectually honest about their core racism as well.

FReegards!

If you’re truly interested in a thorough study of race and IQ I suggest you read the detailed and thoroughly referenced book on the topic, “The Bell Curve” by Hernstein and Murray. It contains all the data points and references you could ever wish for.

https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299

As for Gould’s take on races, this is what he said in his book “Ever Since Darwin”...

“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.”

Also...

“I do not claim that intelligence, however defined, has no genetic basis—I regard it as trivially true, uninteresting, and unimportant that it does. The expression of any trait represents a complex interaction of heredity and environment. [… A] specific claim purporting to demonstrate a mean genetic deficiency in the intelligence of American blacks rests upon no new facts whatever and can cite no valid data in its support. It is just as likely that blacks have a genetic advantage over whites. And, either way, it doesn’t matter a damn. An individual can’t be judged by his group mean.”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

As for the statement by Huxley, what he was saying was that brain size might be more important than jaw size in a “contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites”. Why would you disagree with such a statement?

As for Neanderthal’s brain being bigger than Homo Sapiens, he had a bigger body too, and his brain was actually not bigger.

“After correcting for these differences, the research team found that the amount of brain volume left over for other tasks—in other words, the mental capacity not devoted to seeing the world or moving the body—was significantly smaller for Neanderthals than for ancient H. sapiens. Although the average raw brain volumes of the two groups studied were practically identical (1473.84 cubic centimeters for humans versus 1473.46 for Neanderthals), the average “corrected” Neanderthal brain volume was just 1133.98 cubic centimeters, compared to 1332.41 for the humans.”

From: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-shows-why-youre-smarter-than-a-neanderthal-1885827/

“Only evolutionary indoctrinated idiots still connect one’s jaw structure, brain size, and melanin content with a subject’s intelligence.”

The data says otherwise and the data doesn’t care about your opinion.

“Whoever came up with that silly diagram you posted should be as intellectually honest about their core racism as well.”

People who have respect for truth, honesty, and reality came up with that diagram - they are realists not racists.

Here’s one such race realist. Take a look at it if you’re at all open minded, and please let me know where you disagree with him. But I warn you, it will upset you given your current fact-free point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4KNnRBUhGo

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