<div class="gmail_quote">On 29 July 2011 17:04, David Lubkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lubkin@unreasonable.com">lubkin@unreasonable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
More significantly, I am an Ashkenazic Jew of statistically abnormal<br>
intelligence. </blockquote><div><br>I take it you are not implying to be an exception in your tribe, and on the contrary that you share the feature of an abnormally *high* average IQ... :-)<br><br>As to the reasons, they must be as usual directional selection and genetic drift - the latter being allowed by some degree of endogamy. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>