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This, according to historian Mark Wild, “encouraged participants in the sex trade both workers and customers to converge on those neighborhoods regardless of their ethnoracial background.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The only real serious scientific question is WHY do these well established ethnoracial group intelligence differences exist?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

Remember, the race/IQ controversy is not about whether ethnoracial groups differ in IQ-type intelligence – every honest observer knows that obviously members of some groups (e.g. Jews, Han-Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and high caste Hindus) tend to be much smarter than average Whites, and that members of some groups (Native Americans, Hispanics, and Blacks) tend to be much less smart than average Whites.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

This is because all of the ethnoracial group differences in specific molecular genetic genomic differences have been (or are currently being) determined.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

Now we have genome-wide gene differences cataloged for the following eleven ethnoracial groups:

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

The ethnoracial group genetic differences are the topics of numerous papers in human genomics research and the ethnoracial group differences have been cataloged and stored in several widely accessible databases such as HapMap, NCBI/GenBank/dbSNP, and Ensemble.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

Finding this sort of scientific discovery does not bode well for the Boasian theory that all ethnoracial groups have the same genetic endowment for intelligence.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

The Boasian/Environmentalist hypothesis is that ethnoracial group intelligence differences are entirely due to environmental and cultural differences and that genetic differences play no significant role.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

It is important to realize that it is not possible for scientists to determine the genetic differences that account for variation of IQ within the white racial group without ALSO discovering if these genetic differences appear to underly the ethnoracial group differences.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010

The Galtonian/Hereditarian hypothesis is that ethnoracial group intelligence differences are mainly due to genetic differences (but also, to a lesser degree, due to environmental and cultural differences).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010