Obviously it's not IE admixture considering ashkenazis have higher IQ than all IE ethnic groups.
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Obviously it's not IE admixture considering ashkenazis have higher IQ than all IE ethnic groups.
I see you always look to widen your friend circle on the board by adding "NW India", i should have thought of this before. There are more R1 in Sephardi than Ashkenazi? i wasn't aware of that and find it surprising. However i agree in general R1 must not have been the brightest of the bunch for their time anyway, so Rethel point was moot as usual, like even R1 Cameroon is not brighter than E1 Cameroon, just the same.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771134/
Significantly more common (particularly R1b) amongst non-Ashkenazim.
And Europeans have higher IQ than all MENA and South asian
groups, also higher, than all other jewish groups exept Ashkenazis.
So, the only factor which is different is the fact that they were from
Central Europe and they absobred the local admix, which is not present
among other jewish groups plus some selectional factor in small population
did the job which became present later in large one.