RE: Doogie Mice

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• "O'Regan, Emlyn" <Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au> wrote:
  > > My contention is that humankind has created an
  > ecological niche which
  > > not only offers no reproductive advantage to
  > higher intelligence, there is
  > > in fact
  > > a *very large* reproductive advantage to stupidity
  > and irresponsibility.
  > > spike
  > >
  > Actually, I don't think this is correct; I was
  > reading somewhere (my
  > trademark accuracy again) that intelligence
  > (+education?) is increasingly
  > important, at least in the west, as a determinant of
  > success. The world's
  > getting more complicated.
  >
  > That's my excuse, anyhow.
  > Emlyn
  

You are probably correct in saying that intelligence is important to success, but what KIND of success? Most likely economic succes is influenced by intellignece, while stupidity [for lack of a better term] may be more important to reproductive success.

Most successful people, at least in the west, have fewer children than their poorer peers.

Brian
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Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government.

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