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Hmm, which geneticist coined the term? Oh, it was VDARE contributor Steve Sailer? The one who writes about black genetic inferiority and Jewish control of the media?

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No, it was probably the anthropologist Jonathan Marks, in his 1995 book entitled, curiously enough, Human Biodiversity.

Ah, you're right, Marks clarifies that racists appropriated the term he coined (http://anthropomics2.blogspot.com/2019/12/i-coined-phrase-hu...). Siskind obviously was referring to the nazi/alt-right/nrx meaning of the term, associated with Sailer, though.

Well, Jews are 3x over-represented in US Congress and to a variable degree in other high-effort, high-reward areas such as law and yes, media management.

Unless you'd suspect a conspiracy, there has to be a genetic or a cultural reason for that and the problem with that is that any such reason could plausibly apply to Black Americans.

Biodiversity implies it isn't cultural.

Adoption studies also don't suggest that. Ashkenazi Jews seem to actually have a different brain model.

Different brain model?

Just say genetic if you mean genetic.

Yes, a genetically different brain model.

https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jb...

Brain model doesn't seem to be a common term. The linked paper uses the word model several times but not in a way that matches how used it.

I'm not going to debate the paper. For the benefit of anyone else reading here's a rebuttal.[1] I suggest reading both.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131029200900/https://www.ncas.r...

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