Race, identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People

[permela]

The source of the excerpts quoted below is: http://www.abrahamschildren.net/PDF/Tal ... Entine.doc

JEW Jon Entine was interviewed about his book “Abraham’s children” by Jan te Nijenhuis for the Dutch journal on gifted children “Talent”.

Jon Entine is a science writer and has authored two best-selling books. In his recent book “Abraham’s Children: Race, identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” Entine focuses on the history of Jews all over the world in combination with their DNA structure. In an exclusive interview with Talent Entine talks about his controversial book, the high IQ of Jews, and the abundance of gifted Jewish children.

I did not reflexively take the socially acceptable view that there are no meaningful differences between populations.

. . Population groups share many genotypic characteristics—scientists are now able to identify gene frequencies common to insular groups known as haplotypes—that often result in phenotypic differences in functionality or appearance, which can include anything from disease proclivities to height, body proportion, or even brain functions, including IQ. . . . evolution has proscribed body types and physiology in identifiable populations. For example, speaking in very broad terms, whites, particularly of Eurasian ancestry, dominate elite strength related sports, such as weight lifting, hammer throw, javelin, shot put, etc.

MY COMMENT: Are Whites physically stronger and more civilized because they have been farmers longer than any other race?

According to a Michael Hammer, an eminently respected population geneticist at the University of Arizona, the rate of introgression of non-Jewish genes into the gene pool of Ashkenazi Jews (Jews of Central and Eastern European descent) since the formation of Ashkenazi Jewry about one thousand years ago stood at less than 0.5 percent per generation until intermarriage became rampant over the last two generations.

Mark Twain wrote:

“[T]he Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him.”

We’ve all heard the phrase: “We are, regardless of race, 99.9 percent the same.” . . However slight the genetic differences (and geneticists now believe that they are far greater than the 0.1 percent that previously had been estimated), they are defining.

We are descendants of an ancient tribal religion that is as much ancestral and tied to geography—Israel—as it is based on faith.

MY COMMENT: Is a religious organization racist if how it treats someone depends on his ancestry?

The most strongly held beliefs—that Mormons are descendants of the Lost Tribes, that Native Americans can trace their ancestry to biblical times, or that Britain was founded by exilic Jews have been soundly disproven by genetic research.

NEGRO JEWS - Even more persuasive was the finding of the Jewish priestly marker, the Cohan Modal Haploytpe, in the priestly clan of the Lemba, known as the Buba. The priestly Buba clan has the CMH in a higher percentage than Ashkenazi priests do.

A recent genetic study suggested that as many as 20 percent of Spaniards today may be descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity before or during the Inquisition.

By the tenth century, Jews were established in Northern Europe, and they followed the Norman Conquest in 1066 into England.

“You shall not deduct interest from loans to our countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest; but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners,” reads Deuteronomy 23.

MY COMMENT: Are Jews who treat other people differently because of their ancestry racists?

Looking at worldwide population groups, Jews appear at the top of the IQ charts, followed by East Asians, Whites, Arabs, other Asians, Indians, Blacks and Australian Aborigines. Studies have set average Ashkenazi IQ at anywhere from 107 to 117, which would rank them as the highest tested population in the world, as much as a full standard deviation above the general European average of about 101.

Non-Ashkenazi Jews––Sephardim and Oriental Jews who have undergone more intermixing––do not have higher average IQ scores, nor are they more likely to be in high-achieving jobs.

From 1870 to 1950, Jewish representation in literature was four times the number one would expect. In music, five times. In the visual arts, five times. In biology, eight times. In chemistry, six times. In physics, nine times. In mathematics, twelve times. In philosophy, fourteen times.

The first Nobel Prize to a Jew was awarded in 1905, four years after the prizes were initiated. By 1950, 14 percent had gone to Jews. Over the next half century, 29 percent of the winners were Jewish or of substantial Jewish ancestry––a success rate 12 times higher than would be expected based on population figures alone. Jews have captured 40 percent of the prizes in economics; 28 percent in physiology and medicine; and 26 percent in physics. Jews and “half Jews” account for 20-30 percent of Nobel Prize winners and 36 percent of all US winners. They’ve won more than one quarter of the Westinghouse Science prizes, the ACM Turing Awards (considered the Nobel Prize of the computing world), and the Fields Prize (the top mathematics award). Fifty-four percent of the world’s chess champions have recent Jewish ancestry.

. . . a Jew is 6 times more likely than other whites to be considered a genius.

MY COMMENT: My definition of a PEOPLE, NATION or RACE is a group that has remained insular over hundreds or thousands of years because of geographical isolation or even because of religious or cultural restrictions.

The more intelligent a race of savages is, the more dangerous to civilization it is.

[KenPatrick]

Jon Entine is the rare author who gets the science and the history correct. I am qualified to say the former because I have been involved in DNA research since the mid seventies, when my thesis work was published in the journal Biochemistry on gene expression in developing muscle. I am an amateur concerning the history of the Jewish people, but it has been a focus of much of my reading for the past decade. Therefore, I will concentrate on the author's brilliant framing of the study of race.

I have a number of colleagues that study mutations in the human genome that produce blindness, cystic fibrosis, and susceptibility to cancer. In order to receive funding from the overly political funding agencies, I would bet that the word "race" does not appear in their grant applications, even though it is clear from the pioneering work on sickle cell anemia that disease markers are powerful indicators of one's genetic legacy. Publishing articles using the term "race" in many of the leading (politically correct) journals would also meet with knee-jerk rejection.

The author explains clearly how the idea that there is no genetic basis for race corrupted the field of population genetics for the past few decades. The author shows intestinal fortitude by naming the culprits central to candy-coating the subject.

The author does not spend enough time, however, on founder effects. As a breeder of Norwegian Fjord horses, I understand what it takes to get traits stably integrated into a population. Unfortunately, this subject is only taught at agricultural colleges, and not at prestigious universities and medical schools. Founder effects, coupled with population bottlenecks, can make profound changes to a population's phenotype. The author should have spent more time on this central topic, so that readers could better understand why green-eyed Jews are not the half-breeds that antisemitic groups would claim that they are.

Last, the author's writing style is wonderful. The book reads like a well-crafted novel and mixes ancient history, modern sociology, and molecular genetics into an extremely readable book. It is well worth reading.