GCSE scores (British standardized testing) are shown through
twin studies to be a terrifying 75% hereditary when factors like intelligence
is combined with other traits (this is ignoring nurture)
The IQ of men can be detected reasonably well by strangers
(oddly enough computers cannot do this at the moment)
Ambition is ~40% hereditary
When superior academic performance and ambition are combined
in children who are (most likely) being raised with more resources and a (most
likely) more achievement-oriented parenting style, we come across a group of
elite children born to elite parents who are genetically and behaviorally
superior to all others when it comes to future success. Additionally, at least
in men, this superiority is detectable by other people. With successful people
more commonly surrounding and mating with people of similar success levels we
may likely see an increase in these biologically superior children. If we continue
to assume (as Darwin would) that the most fit mates rise as the cream of the
crop, eventually we will have a dichotomous evolutionary tree where a small but
incredibly elite group breaks off. From this group we shouldn’t expect
telepathy or anything of the sort, but we can suspect superior minds in
addition to long lines of wealth stemming from their near equally gifted and
driven parents, grandparents, and ancestors. Does this branching off of the
elite begin with millennials who have more access to greater educational
resources distributed to the academically superior and driven rather than just
the wealthy? Or has the branching off already begun? While the severity of the
gap between the “elites” and “normies” is certainly up for debate–especially when
considering this would likely also have a scalar quality to it rather than just
a two distinct roads–in a certain dystopian sense, the end of the unified human
race as we know it may have already begun. I’d imagine that as society surges
towards a more accepting place for people of all backgrounds it will suddenly
be shaken by the issue of how to deal with actual genetic inferiority rather
than merely oppressive social constructs. Do the genetically inferior deserve
equal rights with the people who would likely be running the word while writing
its rules?
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