According to one of my former professors who specializes in European history, World War I killed such a huge percentage of the cream of European “breeding stock” (pardon the phrase) that in following generations, the average height of Europeans dropped by more than two inches and their IQ’s fell by an average of 10 points.
I am convinced that the downfall of the French nation dates from the slaughter of WWI. The French Army regulars (the poilus -- "hairy guys" -- ) were competent, tough, and very, very brave. But they all were killed at Verdun, Ypres, and the Marne.
BuHuHaHa! My standardized answer to such widespread moronic crap:
Love it or hate it - if we look on the issue from a Darwinistic point of view, those wars cleaned the male European gene-pool from those who were not able to survive such a situation like war. There are many reasons for it: Some were too aggressive, some were not careful enough, some were too dumb, some followed their orders to the last etc. etc. etc.. War is a perfect selection. I am aware that not all reasons for not dying in a war are that honourful, but they are for sure a good way not to win the "Darwin Award"*. Those who survive are usually (we do not speak about individual cases) more intelligent and more able compared to their fallen comrades (I know that this is not PC - but it is the plain truth). And guess what: Those Europeans who survived war, the Holocaust, Gestapo, Russian imprisonment, the foreign Legion, NKWD, KGB, SS, American chewing gum, Mormon missionaries, the economic wonder and Elvis Presley are my grandfathers and fathers. The by far best genetic material you can find.
Since your
professor was obviously too dumb to understand Darwinism and the principles of biological selection I recommend strongly the visit of another -more scientific- univercity. The teachers of your campus should better specialize into cleaning toilets instead of European history, since this would obviously fit much better into their intellectual potentials.
Greetings from Lake Constance - Good old Europe!
AB
Of course that may not have been genetics, but poor nutrition.