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June 8, 2005
The price of genius is madness inbreeding and cancer
The Economist reports that European Jews (or Ashkenazim as we like to call ourselves) may be more intelligent than the average person of western European decent, and it is caused by the same genes that cause diseases that uniquely plague that population like Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's and Niemann-Pick. This is similar to, but not as clearly established as the relationship between sickle cell anemia and malarial resistance in Africans.
Posted by OneEyedMan at June 8, 2005 1:47 PM
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Interesting stuff! So is this what you do all day, OneEyedMan?
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at June 8, 2005 4:48 PM
When I'm not begging for more work to do.
Posted by: TheOneEyedMan at June 8, 2005 5:11 PM
Well at least you find interesting web-bits. Keeps me entertained.
Posted by: bonnieroskes at June 9, 2005 11:01 AM
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