* Race among humans is as real as ancestry, which ultimately is what race is. Different ancestral human groups have, through time and evolution, accumulated differences in their respective biologies. The oft-repeated claim that “race is a social construct” – which is technically true – is meaningless.
* This a map of the average brain size of indigenous (pre-European diaspora) peoples across the globe. Average brain size correlates with latitude, and also correlates (partially) with average IQ (derived primarily from Lynn & Vanhanen, 2012)…
* ..all human behavioral traits are heritable. This includes intelligence, personality, political views, religiosity, even how much you enjoy watching television or surfing the internet.
* …global disparities in wealth, human development, freedom, and social welfare stem largely from the innate traits of the people who inhabit each country. These include IQ, future time orientation, and the aforementioned clannishness…
* Northwestern Europeans and their descendants stand out in particular – in many ways, distinct from all other peoples across the world……being lower on corruption, being more individualistic (as opposed to communal), having weaker family ties vis-a-vis the rest of the world……having stronger civic institutions, having a greater attachment to/belief in democracy, and so much more.
HBD Chick thinks that these unique traits arose in good part because NW Europeans have a long history of avoiding cousin marriage, unlike virtually all other peoples around the world. This led to lower average relatedness within families, thereby weakening the strength of selection for kin altruism relative to selection for reciprocal altruism.
