Reply #4: I think different groups of people [View All]

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adapted enough to their environments that they are different physically at the very least. Small groups within a race.

There is a nutritional book that says people from certain northern coastal areas need more fish oil, for instance - because of centuries of adaptation. And that it can affect these people psychologically if they don't get it.

Seems like people are afraid to think about the possibilities. Afraid of value judgments and such. It's kind of like the male/female brain controversy. There are so many assumptions and so much cultural bias - that some people don't even want to know. The studies will end up saying that people are different but equal. I think some people are afraid that other people will use it to make a case for the opposite. I.E. - the math controversy.



From the article - I think the terms stocks sounds derogatory - a little too much like livestock or something. I noticed it being used in a copy of a 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica. I don't really expect it to be used today.