Theme: Sex Differences

(speculative uncomfortableness)

—“What do you think is the evolutionary reason for Jews exhibiting relatively poor spatial aptitude when compared to European gentiles? I understand the basis for the selective pressure within Jewish communities for a certain level of verbal and math prowess, I’m just lost why that didn’t carry over to visuospatial ability?”—

The only theory that makes any sense and corresponds with the data, is that they selected for feminine traits in men: memory for memorizing the doctrine, and verbal acumen for arguing Jewish laws, and interpreting scripture, and dealing with contracts – as well as perception in judging character. This is probably why they have such a high percentage of homosexuals, and even heterosexual often Jews exhibit what we think of as feminine traits: hence the (admittedly exaggerated) principle: “All Jews are female”.

Imagine that out of every 150 people we got the smartest guy to have as many kids as we could afford, to pay for, as long as he would teach us his knowledge in exchagne, and act as a judge in matters of dispute? How many generations would that take? It takes a lot fewer than you’d think. Humans evolve quickly under intentional selection. In just two hundred years the affect would be dramatic.

So Jews started out as a Semitic people, meaning with higher alertness (which is interesting) and higher aggression, and then some moved to the west, married western wives, within just a generation or two started inbreeding, and use extremely (good) eugenic reproduction, but selected for what we call feminine traits: memory and excellence at expression.

Why do jews pursue a female reproductive strategy? (rallying and shaming, running, and … well, not engaging in the most productive of businesses so to speak). Becuase it’s high return.

So, they evolved themselves to do so. The reason is lost in history, but pastoral sheep herders from arid regions tend to have many competitors and demonstrate (high) particularlism. The group has NEVER been able to hold a decent military, nor hold property for long periods. Nor form a durable, advanced, centralized government.

We evolved to pursue a relatively balanced relationship between males and females for reasons that I think we understand. Scarce populations in cold climates are more dependent upon one another.

The asians we do not know the reason for their skill set, other than they have dramatically lowered their testosterone and sexual maturity and obtained longer lives for doing so.

Muslims chose a more masculine one. Exaggeratedly so, and did so LATE in history, so like any technology they have the most recent.

(each group’s history is pretty interesting in this regard).