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[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

2: they do have some sub-Saharan admixture due to proximity, but more importantly, both Judaism and Islam promote close cousin marriages, and when this is a dominant practice, it leads to the emergence of recessive genetic diseases, many of which reduce intelligence.

[–]sylla94 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

is it a meme that jews are more inbred yet also intelligent then? or can they be both if they select more for intelligence

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whatever effect Jewish inbreeding has had on their intelligence, it has had notable dysgenic effects as well. They have a genetic predisposition towards neuroticism and a variety of personality disorders.

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-ashkenazi-gene-increases-schizophrenia-1.5294333