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Originally Posted by mike alexander
the idea of a generalized, independent thing called intelligence seems to me to fly in the face of evolution.
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If that were true, then evolution could not produce different populations whose members generally have different levels of intelligence, which would mean that ours is equal to a frog's or a coral's.
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Originally Posted by mike alexander
A highly intelligent Bushman might very well get himself quickly killed in rush-hour New York, and an intelligent Manhattanite might very well quickly starve to death in the Outback.
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That's because of factors other than intelligence. It doesn't prove or disprove anything about intelligence because it's on another subject.
Where you come from, is "Bushmen" another word for the Australian people also known as "Aborigines", or did your example just go from Africa to NYC to Australia instead of starting and finishing in the same place?