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by Nicholas Wade


  IQ tests and, 8, 191, 192

  physical characteristics in, 87–91

  society of, 123–24

  transition to modern economy by, 178, 188

  evolution:

  Darwin’s theory of, 22, 26

  pedomorphic, 167

  speciation and, 71–75, 76

  evolution, human, 1–2

  belief in recent suspension of, 5

  genes changed in, 2–3

  history and, 245–49

  of independent populations, 1–2

  natural selection in, see natural selection

  new view of, 2–4

  races and, 71–75

  as recent, copious and regional, 2–4, 6, 7, 10, 242, 243, 251

  social science and, 5, 241

  societies created through, 65–66

  evolutionary perspectives on race, 239–51

  evolutionary stresses, 80–85

  executions, 168–69

  eyes, whites of, 39–40

  face recognition, 52

  Fanconi’s anemia, 208

  Feldman, Marcus, 97–99

  Fengler, Wolfgang, 176

  Ferguson, Niall, 215, 224–25, 246

  feudalism, 145, 146

  Finns, 57, 94

  First Crusade, 204

  fossils, 107, 167

  foxes, 160–61

  founder effect, 206–7

  FOXP2 gene, 110

  Framington Heart Study, 3

  France, 137, 140

  ethnic prejudices and, 17

  Fukuyama, Francis, 136, 137, 139, 142, 144–49, 172–73, 193, 243

  Funnel Beaker Culture, 61, 113

  Galileo, 216, 217

  Galton, Francis, 25–27, 33, 34

  Gama, Vasco da, 233

  Gaucher’s disease, 206, 209

  gene(s), 54, 95, 250–51

  ABCC11, 90–91, 121

  aggression and, 54–57

  alleles of, see alleles

  BRCA1 and BRCA2, 208

  chips, 79

  culture and, 48, 59–61

  DARC, 110–11

  EDAR-V370A, 89–90, 92, 105, 118, 121

  evolutionary changes in, 2–3

  FOXP2, 110

  HTR2B, 57

  KITLG, 111

  lactase, 60–61, 113

  MAO-A, 54–57, 110, 170–71, 243, 244

  MC1R, 87–88

  physical characteristics and, 87–92

  promoters of, 55–57

  race and, 95

  SLC24A5, 88, 111

  social behavior and, 9, 41, 46–47, 50–51, 53, 57–59, 64, 85

  gene-culture evolution, 59–60

  genetic determinism, 221–22

  genetic diversity, species origin and, 102

  genetic drift, 72–75, 76, 78, 102–3, 114, 196

  genetic gradients (clines), 98–99

  genetics:

  language families and, 101

  Mendel’s laws of, 28, 29, 34

  of race, 95–122

  in social institutions, 124–27

  genetic structure of race, 114–17

  genome, human, 1, 2, 14, 68, 251

  association studies and, 114–15

  clusters of variation in, 96–102

  fingerprints of selection in, 102–10

  tandem repeats in, 96, 97, 99, 100

  genomics, racial differences and, 7–9

  genotypes, 75, 109

  geographic determinism, 221–25

  geography, 223

  Germans:

  ethnic prejudices and, 17

  immigrants, 187–88

  Germany, 135, 137, 236–37

  IQ tests in, 192

  Nazi, see Nazi Germany

  Ghana, 183

  Gillham, Nicholas, 26–27

  glaciers, 81

  Glazer, Nathan, 184

  Glorious Revolution, 194–95, 196, 224

  Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur Comte de, 19–20

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 21–22

  government(s), 148, 173

  absolutist, 195, 237

  in Africa, 175–76

  kleptocracies, 175

  in Middle East, 174

  gracilization, 82, 167–68, 170

  Grant, Madison, 31–33

  Greece, ancient, 17, 228, 229

  Gregory VII, Pope, 145–46

  guilt, 50

  Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 117–18, 221–23

  hair, 88–89, 90, 92, 105, 108, 118, 236, 250

  Haiti, 13, 189, 241

  Hanson, Victor Davis, 215

  HapMap, 103

  Hapsburgs, 234, 247

  Harappan civilization, 134

  Hardy, Jason, 202–5, 207–9, 214

  Hargreaves, James, 158–59

  Harpending, Henry, 202–5, 207–9, 214

  Harriman, E. H., 28

  Harriman, Mary, 28

  Harrison, Lawrence, 185

  Hawaii, 134, 186

  Head Start, 190

  height, 112–13

  Henry IV, King, 146

  Heron, David, 34

  high altitudes, 3, 8, 107, 214

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 198

  history:

  evolution and, 245–49

  social behavior and, 9–13, 135–46

  Hitler, Adolf, 16, 19–20, 33, 34–37, 135, 234, 247

  Mein Kampf, 33

  Hofstadter, Richard, 16

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 29–30

  Holocaust, 31, 36–37, 69, 198

  homicide, 156, 170, 172

  Homo erectus, 77

  Homo ergaster, 46

  HTR2B, 57

  Huff, Toby, 166, 216, 217, 219, 228, 230–31, 232

  human capital, 191

  human nature, 150–97, 244

  domestication and, 160–61, 167–73

  economics and, 154–58, 160, 161

  and changes in China, 165–66

  see also social behaviors

  Hung-wu, 230

  hunter-gatherer societies, 62, 76–78, 84, 100–101, 136, 178, 197, 223, 242–43

  division of labor in, 129

  egalitarianism in, 63, 128, 129

  and formation of civilizations, 133

  initiation rites in, 130

  institutions of, 128

  kinship in, 44, 130

  punishment in, 49

  religion in, 130–31

  time preferences in, 158

  transition to settled life from, 10–11, 50, 58, 62–63, 82, 85, 110, 127–32, 149, 167, 226

  violence in, 156

  hunting, 62

  Huntington, Samuel, 183

  ice ages, 77, 91, 93

  Pleistocene, 76, 81, 83

  Iceland, 13, 94

  immigrants, immigration, 28, 38, 188

  Chinese, 186–87, 188, 201, 213, 237

  eugenicists and, 31

  German, 187–88

  Japanese, 185–86, 188

  Immigration Act, 31, 33

  Incas, 134, 226

  incest, 237, 250–51

  India, 134, 147, 227, 233, 246

  Brahmanism in, 141

  state achieved in, 137, 141–42

  telescope introduced to, 215–17

  Indian subcontinent, 4, 86, 96

  transition to modern economy in, 178

  Indonesia, 18, 187

  Indo-Europeans (Aryans), 19–20

  Industrial Revolution, 12, 149, 151–52, 154, 158–59, 161–63, 172, 178–79, 185, 188, 193, 203, 222–24, 244
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  influenza, 116

  Inquisition, 216

  institutional drift, 196

  institutions, see social institutions

  intelligence, 7–8, 111–12, 204, 214, 222–23

  alleles and, 190

  brain size and, 21

  in Jewish populations, 199, 201–5, 207–14

  tests of, see IQ tests

  intentionality, shared, 48, 49

  interbreeding, 17, 19, 23, 71, 75, 78, 84, 116

  interest rates, 157, 158

  IQ and Global Inequality (Lynn and Vanhanen), 191

  IQ and the Wealth of Nations (Lynn and Vanhanen), 191

  IQ tests, 8, 191, 214, 223

  Ashkenazi Jews and, 202, 214

  Chinese and, 166

  debate between hereditarians and environmentalists on, 189–91

  eugenicists and, 30

  wealth and, 189–93

  Iraq, 14, 148, 212, 213, 241

  Isaac, Benjamin, 17–18

  Islam, 229, 230

  Islamic world, 12, 219, 228, 234, 244, 246

  military slavery in, 142–44

  science in, 228–32

  state achieved in, 137

  Jahangir, 216

  James II, King, 146, 194

  Janissaries, 143, 144

  Japan, 13, 88, 90, 172, 193, 196, 220, 236–37, 246, 248

  transition to modern economy in, 178–79

  Japanese, 4, 91, 166

  immigrants, 185–86, 188

  Jennings, Herbert S., 29

  Jensen, Arthur, 190

  Jesuits, 217, 218

  Jews, 94, 187, 197, 198–214, 244, 249

  achievements of, 198–99, 202, 214

  Ashkenazi, 199–209, 214

  Christian conversion among, 211

  discrimination against, 36–37, 198, 213

  expulsions and massacres of, 201, 204–5, 210

  Gobineau’s views on, 19–20

  Hitler and, 19–20

  Holocaust and, 31, 36–37, 69, 198

  intelligence of, 199, 201–5, 207–14

  literacy and, 202, 210–12

  marriage and, 199–200, 204, 205

  Mendelian diseases and, 202, 205–8, 209

  moneylending and, 202–5, 210, 212, 213

  occupations of, 212, 213

  Oriental (Mizrahi), 200–201, 204, 209

  population of, 211, 213

  reproductive success of, 203

  Sephardi, 200–201, 204, 206, 209

  standards of living of, 203

  Talmud and, 205, 211, 212

  Torah and, 210–11

  trade and, 212, 213, 214

  Jones, Eric, 225

  Jordan, Winthrop, 72

  Joshua ben Gamla, 210

  Journal of Biosocial Science, 202

  Judaism, 210–11

  Kamehameha, King, 134

  Kant, Immanuel, 37

  Kapital, Das (Marx), 24

  Kaplan, Hillard, 63

  Kepler, Johannes, 216, 217

  Kevles, Daniel, 29, 30

  Khoisan, 101

  Kim family, 189

  kinship, 136, 143, 178

  chimpanzees and, 43–44

  in hunter-gatherer societies, 44, 130

  KITLG gene, 111

  kleptocracy, 175

  Konner, Melvin, 205

  Korea, Koreans, 4, 90, 166, 179–80, 193, 246

  Korean War, 220

  Kuran, Timur, 230

  lactase gene, 60–61, 113

  lactose tolerance, 60–61

  Landes, David, 235–36

  language(s), 40, 83–84, 92, 98

  cultural component of, 125

  genetics and, 101

  grammar in, 125

  Indo-European, 84

  Khoisan, 101

  in New Guinea, 83, 84

  in United States, 83

  Laos, 187

  Last Glacial Maximum, 81

  law, 58, 124–25, 144–45, 146, 194, 224, 232, 237, 247

  canon, 146

  Justinian code, 146

  Lazarus, Emma, 32

  Lebanon, 182

  Lewontin, Richard, 118–20

  Lewontin’s fallacy, 120

  Li, Jun Z., 99

  lice, 22–23, 108–9

  Lippershey, Hans, 215–16

  L’Isle-aux-Coudres, 3

  literacy, 156–57, 160, 175, 180, 229, 236, 244

  Jews and, 202, 210–12

  Little, Clarence, 29

  Livingstone, Frank, 98

  Lynn, Richard, 191–93

  Lysenko, Trofim, 160

  madrasas, 229

  malaria, 110–11, 116, 117–18, 206

  Malaya, 18

  Malaysia, 186

  Malthus, Thomas, 11, 159, 161, 163–65, 172, 178, 181, 197, 245

  Darwin and, 155

  An Essay on the Principle of Population, 152, 153–54, 155, 162

  Malthusian trap, 149, 152, 153–54, 162, 179, 203, 222

  Mamluks, 143–44

  Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Montagu), 69, 119

  MAO-A gene, 54–57, 110, 170–71, 243, 244

  Mao Tse-tung, 135, 145, 189

  marriage, 145, 154, 162–63

  incest and, 237

  intermarriage, 17, 19, 23, 71, 75, 78, 84, 92, 116, 199

  Jews and, 199–200, 204, 205

  local, 80

  Marshall Plan, 183

  marshmallow test, 157–58

  Marx, Karl, 24

  Marxism, 27, 59, 201

  mate guarding, 44–45

  MC1R gene, 87–88

  McNeill, William, 215

  medicine, 221, 224

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 33

  Mendel, Gregor, 28, 29, 34

  Mendelian diseases, 202, 205–8, 209

  menopause, age at first, 3

  Mental Deficiency Act, 33

  Meredith, Martin, 175–76

  Mesoamerica, 134

  Meso-Industrial Age, 196–97

  Mesolithic Age, 197

  Mesopotamia, 132, 226

  middle-class culture, 160, 161, 171, 172

  Middle East, 86, 96, 137, 177, 197, 230

  transition to modern economy in, 178

  tribalism in, 173, 174–75, 177

  migrations, 72, 75, 76, 185–86

  military, 58, 63, 64, 130, 148, 247

  military power, 220, 234

  military slavery, 142–44

  milk consumption, 60–61

  mind as blank slate, 59, 201, 242

  Mirazón Lahr, Marta, 167

  Mischel, Walter, 157–58

  Mismeasure of Man, The (Gould), 21

  mitochondria, 74, 79

  Mizrahim (Oriental Jews), 200–201, 204, 209

  Moche state, 134

  moneylending, 202–5, 210, 212, 213

  Mongoloid skulls, 91

  Mongols, 136, 141, 246, 247

  monkeys and apes, 39

  chimpanzees, see chimpanzees

  monogamy, 45

  Montagu, Ashley, 69, 70, 119

  moral dilemmas, 52

  morality, 50, 59, 124

  Morton, Samuel, 20–22

  mosaic zones, 83, 84

  mucolipidosis type IV, 206

  Muhammad, 229

  Muller, Jerry Z., 213

  Muslim world, see Islamic world

  mutations, 72, 73, 75, 78

  Myers, Richard M., 99

  Napoleon I, Emperor, 234, 247

  Narmer, 134
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  national character, 150–51

  National Human Genome Research Institute, 68

  National Institutes of Health, 103

  Native Americans, 18, 20, 88, 91, 93, 94

  Natufian culture, 82

  natural selection, 1, 2–4, 11, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 114, 155, 222, 243–44, 245

  diversity reduction and, 102

  fingerprints of, in human genome, 102–10

  human social behavior and, 40, 41, 66

  MAO-A gene and, 55, 56

  neutral variations in, 102

  purifying, 73, 87–88

  trust and, 53

  whites of the eyes and, 40

  nature vs. nurture, 26

  Nazi Germany, 16, 25, 34–35

  eugenics program in, 35–37

  Holocaust and, 31, 36–37, 69, 198

  Neanderthals, 77

  Near East, 4, 85, 182, 227

  Neolithic Age, 197

  nervous system, 109

  neurotransmitters, 54–55

  New Guinea, 83, 84, 93, 94, 222

  Newton, Isaac, 216

  Niemann-Pick disease, 206

  Nigeria, 13, 176

  Noah’s ark, 18

  Nordics, 31, 32, 35, 37

  norepinephrine, 54–55

  North, Douglass, 124, 136, 243

  North Korea, 13, 179–80, 189

  Nuremberg Law, 36

  Ögedei Khan, 234

  Olmec state, 134

  Olympic Games, 8

  On Civility in Children (Erasmus), 168

  On the Natural Variety of Mankind (Blumenbach), 18–19

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 16, 22

  Oriental Jews (Mizrahim), 200–201, 204, 209

  Ottomans, 144, 147, 174, 175, 182, 220, 229, 230, 233, 234, 247

  telescope introduced to, 215–16, 217

  oxytocin, 51–53, 243

  ovarian cancer, 208

  pair bonding, 44–45, 46

  Paleolithic Age, 197, 222

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 31, 33

  pastoralists, 63

  patience and delayed gratification, 157–58, 160, 184–85

  Paul of Tarsus, 211

  Pearl, Raymond, 29

  pedomorphic evolution, 167

  peopling of the world, 76–80, 84

  Persia, 212, 213

  Peru, 186

  Pharisees, 210

  phenotypes, 75, 109

  physical anthropologists, 69–70, 82

  physical characteristics, genes and, 87–92

  Pinker, Steven, 169–72

  plagues, 153

  Pleistocene Ice Age, 76, 81, 83

  Polynesia, 134

  Pomeranz, Kenneth, 154, 179

  population, 11, 245, 246

  budding, 76

  in evolution of societies, 132–34

  increases in, 64, 83, 85

  major splits in, 85–86, 93

  Malthusian trap and, 149, 152, 153–54, 162, 179, 203, 222

  movements of, 80–81

  peopling of the world, 76–80

  and transition to settled life from hunter-gatherer societies, 128–29

 

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