feotakahari

Yeah, this is another obvious argument against scientific racism more rigorous than "evolution stops at the neck." Even if different human populations have experienced different intensities of selection pressure for intelligence, races as defined by the conventional US concept of race are almost certainly way too big and coarse-grained to capture the relevant populations. Like, "black people" as conventionally defined in US racial discourse conflates everyone from Somalis to Zulus to Congolese to Senegalese, i.e. everyone from a huge environmentally and culturally heterogenous region (it gets even funnier if Australian aborigines and dark-skinned Oceanians and Andamanese are also counted as "black," as they sometimes are - that population probably diverged from Africans before Europeans did!).