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JICYMI

Just In Case You Missed It with the others, as well as with the DNA of 26 Flemish researchers found. Only 46% to 50% of the DNA in the

people from Belgium. Their analysis allowed them to trace 128 samples originated with the group of people who
By Bob Kronish the genetic roots of this population to a founding group were also the ancestors of the Flemish people in the study.
in the Middle Ages. Those ancient people split off from the ancestors of today’s
The Ashknazi Paradox “Ashkenaz” in Hebrew refers to Germany, and Middle Easterners more than 20,000 years ago, with a
Every Jew is familiar Ashkenazi Jews are those who originated in Eastern founding group of about 3,500 to 3,900 people, according
with the phrase: “Why is Europe. (Sephardic Jews, by contrast, are from the to the study.
this night different from all areas around the Mediterranean Sea, including Portugal, The rest of the Ashkenazi genome comes from the
other nights?” It has been Spain, the Middle East and Northern Africa.) About 80% Middle East, the researchers reported. This founding group
associated with Passover, of modern Jews have Ashkenazi ancestry, according to “fused” with the European founding group to create a
possibly since the first the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Albert Einstein population of 250 to 420 individuals. These people lived
celebration of that event was an Ashkenazi Jew, as were Gertrude Stein and Carl 25 to 32 generations ago, and their descendants grew
was conducted. There is Sagan. Steven Spielberg and Scarlett Johansson are also at a rate of 16% to 53% per generation, the researchers
now another expression of equal interest, “Why are Ashkenazi Jews, along with three current members of calculated. Today there are more than 10 million
Ashkenazi Jews smarter than other Jews?” To state it more the U.S. Supreme Court (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Ashkenazi Jews around the world, including 2.8 million in
specifically, “Why do Ashkenzi Jews score higher on IQ Breyer and Elena Kagan). Israel, according to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
tests than Non-Ashkenazi Jews, and in fact, higher than Despite their close ties with Europe, no more than
any other ethnic group?” half of their DNA comes from ancient Europeans, the JICYMI on page 3
Almost 15 years ago, the Economist magazine
published the following: “The idea that some ethnic groups
may, on average, be more intelligent than others is one of
those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory
Cochran, a noted scientific iconoclast, is prepared to say
it anyway”.
Even he, however, might tremble at the thought of
what he has done. Together with Jason Hardy and Henry
Harpending, of the University of Utah, he published, in an
edition of the Journal of Biosocial Science, a paper which
not only suggests that one group of humanity is more
intelligent than the others, but explains the process that
has brought this about. The group in question is Ashkenazi
Jews. The process is natural selection.”
Whether Ashkenazi Jews have higher average
intelligence than other ethnic groups, and if so, why,
has been an occasional subject of scientific controversy.
Studies have generally found Ashkenazi Jews to have an
average IQ in the range of 107 to 115, and Ashkenazi Jews
as a group have had successes in intellectual fields far out
of proportion to their numbers.
More recently however, The Los Angeles Times
published the following, providing additional background:
“All of the Ashkenazi Jews alive today can trace their roots
to a group of about 330 people who lived 600 to 800 years
ago.
That was reported in a new study in the journal
Nature Communications. An international team of
scientists sequenced the complete genomes of 128 healthy
Ashkenazi Jews and compared each of those sequences

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