Vikings brought an Indian woman to Iceland.

I think that all depends on how you define advanced.

As for the guy who keeps claiming that the proverbial 'Adam and Eve' lived in Kenya 60000 years ago, would you care to show some documentation where this is 'proven'? I've seen a lot of info out there, and there is by no means any consensus on that topic. And certainly you can't believe that every single human came from offspring from ONE mating couple?

I think you have added a lot of your own certainty to a theory that contains a lot of conjecture (very educated and well reasoned, but conjecture nonetheless). Anyone who really believes in the principles of contemporary science knows that many things that we 'know' are not definite, but the best solution we have come across.

Of course, you’re right in noting the difference between the skulls of primates and negros.

I wasn’t suggesting they were exactly the same.

The cranial capacity of a gorilla, for instance, is only about 19oz, compared to the negro’s 40oz average.

The average European is about 55oz and here’s where our old friend Darwin and evolution comes in (and was mentioned early on in this thread) - African brains did not need to evolve to determine the future, since all their basic needs were met by the tropical environment they lived in.

European man, and Indo-European man, needed to develop brain functions that allowed them to plan for the future since they lived in a colder climate that required them to store food for the inclement weather.

Augusto Perez wrote:

How are you not implying that the first humans who made their home in Patagonia are the most intelligent, most advanced because they and their antecedents traveled the farthest over the widest variety of geography to arrive at where they ultimately made their home?

Alternatively, the most marginal individuals get pushed to the farthest margins. Darwin was appalled by destition of the Patagonians he saw on his voyage.

See your college bookstore textbooks on genetics, National Geographic Human Genome Project website, or numerous articles on the Human Genome Project in Time Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, New York Times.

There is no such difference in cranial capacity.

Darwin Jn wrote:

Of course, you’re right in noting the difference between the skulls of primates and negros.

I wasn’t suggesting they were exactly the same.

The cranial capacity of a gorilla, for instance, is only about 19oz, compared to the negro’s 40oz average.

The average European is about 55oz and here’s where our old friend Darwin and evolution comes in (and was mentioned early on in this thread) - African brains did not need to evolve to determine the future, since all their basic needs were met by the tropical environment they lived in.

European man, and Indo-European man, needed to develop brain functions that allowed them to plan for the future since they lived in a colder climate that required them to store food for the inclement weather.

Some of you posters must be from the tropics, because you are pretty d@mn stupid.

Who are you, Georges Cuvier?

All skulls have the same volume for human beings. The Tea Party might think otherwise. But not forensic science.

Africans have the smallest heads in proportion to their bodies.

Whites are in the middle range.

Asians are in the high range. However Whites still have larger brains than Asians.

What a bunch of shite ! Any human being "can" unless mentally handicapped learn what any other human being can. Of course that's all dependant on desire, ambition, etc.

This brings us to the real problem motivated or unmotivated beings !

I've known guys who could run :47 in highscool off little training and never did another thing after highschool because they were unmotivated (lazy).

Blacks have huge issues with higher order math and engineering.

Usually the few that are in those majors, are thinned towards the end of a degree to just a few individuals, and most of them are half something else.

Just an observation.

I AM Fleetfoot wrote:

What a bunch of shite ! Any human being "can" unless mentally handicapped learn what any other human being can. Of course that's all dependant on desire, ambition, etc.

This brings us to the real problem motivated or unmotivated beings !

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Do you really believe this? I consider myself pretty intelligent but I have met people far, far smarter than I am. I don't think I can learn what they can.

Blacks have huge issues with higher order math and engineering.

South Indians and Sri Lankans have midnight black skin. They only reluctantly, with deep shame and embarrasment, accept entry into Stanford, Cal Tech, Princeton, USC, UCLA, MIT, etc. if they are denied entry into the Indian Institute of Technology.

The pyramids were designed by light-skinned North Africans. The actual labor was done by dark-skinned slaves.

If you think that there is no correlation between race and academic abilities, then you are ignoring 50 years of standardized test scores. The only way that most African Americans get into competitive colleges is through affirmative action programs (quotas).

This is not about skin color, it's about race. No one in this conversation has said that Indians are not smart. We all acknowledge that they are. We are saying that humans who only recently (last 2-5K years) left Africa have not evolved as much as those who migrated much earlier (60-100K years).

The humans who left Africa during that earlier mass migration and settled into what is now India obviously changed genetically, and they are now among the smartest people in the world. They are well represented as Nobel Laureates in Physics, Medicine, etc..

Of the world's smartest humans, most of them are members of races that left Africa a long, long time ago.

The humans who left Africa more recently are the world's greatest athletes. With rare exceptions, recent immigrants from West Africa are the only humans to run sub 9.90 for 100 meters. With rare exceptions, recent immigrants or current residents of East Africa are the only humans to run sub 26:50 for 10,000 meters.

We are all human and we all have different abilities. Can't we just celebrate the diversity?

Egyptians are Black Africans as are all Nile River inhabitants. Jesus Christ was a Black man.

No you dumbshit. When the pyramids were built there were no civilized people outside of Kenya, Uganda, and the Nile River Valley. The rest of the world had only primitives, pre-aboriginal savages with no names, no language, It wasn't until after the pyramids that civilization spread from Black Africa to the primitives.

Oh, my goodness. Where to start.

Well, first of all, Egyptians are NOT black Africans. Ask nearly any Egyptian if they are black and they will tell you that they aren't. They are a light-skinned people. North Africans (Moroccans, Algerians, Egyptians, etc) have light skin. Sub-Saharan Africans(Niger, Nigeria, Chad, etc) have dark skin.

Unless you were raised by the black panthers, you can't possibly actually believe that Jesus was black. He was a very very light-skinned semitic person.

There is a very racist, politically motivated piece of propaganda out there that claims that Egyptians are black, and that because the Greeks borrowed from Egyptian culture, that all of Western Civilization was actually "stolen" from Black Africans. This is obviously a weak attempt to help Black Africans deal with self-esteem issues.