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It could turn around. Fewer women will mean that your daughter will be able to choose from a pool of single men and perhaps choose the richest one. If your family is poor, it can benefit from this.
I think India should be more concerned about its overpopulation than about single men, if anything having skewed sex ratios will help her reduce overpopulation in the long term.
The original article says that Detroit has gone through economic changes and he is just pointing out that it has gone through demographic changes as well. I don't think he needs to add any comments to it, the link speaks for itself
The birth rate is below replacement level, in fact it's almost nearly 1 which means that the population halves every generation. At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact.
I admire Japanese culture, it's a shame that with their extremely low birth rate they might eventually disappear. This is not an exaggeration, the current rate just has to continue as it is for a few more decades and there is no reason to believe it will change.
Aaaah, not very useful for me then. I live in Europe and doubt that I have any Asian or African ancestry. Maybe some Middle-Eastern or Sephardic Jew but I guess that falls in the same race as Europeans so they won't be able to tell me. $260 was going to be a big investment for me, I will wait until they can tell the difference between early Europe's ethnic groups: Celts, Germanic tribes, Iberians, Basques, "Roman", etc... They need to study people living in Europe in kind of isolated communities, remote mountains or whatever, then they will be able to tell the difference.
That sounds cool. Can they tell you from which European ethnic groups you come from too? How specific are they about this? Do they say French, German, etc...? Or do they say South of France Celtic, Germanic tribe from the North and so on?
Any predictions of when sequencing the whole genome might cost around $200?
Did you find anything interesting? Ailments or ancestry?
Yes, I think that might be it. Unfortunately, there isn't much evidence any side can put on the table. Genetics will advance a lot in the coming years, so that might put an end to the debate and that ideology will be shattered. If that same ideology impedes that we study heritability in the West, I'm sure China will still study it.
It wasn't about me, I've been doing sports my whole life but never tried weight lifting. Before I spend my time writing a reply, please answer this question. Do you think that if we all lived in the same environment, had the same diet, did as much physical exercise and all other variables were the same except our genes, we wouldn't see a difference of 1 foot between people or a difference of pounds of muscle mass? And more related to the article, we wouldn't see a difference in intelligence?
Where I live you honestly can't say that diet stunts people's growth. That would apply in places where food isn't readily available, but certainly not in the western world. From looking at people I know I can tell you too, that the differences in muscle size is more related to how much muscle they had before going to the gym than how much time they spend there.
Can you start going to the gym and get stronger than your friends who don't go? No. Out of 10 friends maybe you'll pass 1 or 2 of them in strength, but that's it. That is what I have seen but I'd say it is pretty far from what you suggest.
Even if we can't measure it, what makes it so hard to believe that intelligence is inheritable? Is height inheritable? Yes. Is eye color inheritable? Yes. Is skin color inheritable? Yes. Is physical strength....? Yes. Why wouldn't a human characteristic that has provided one of the biggest advantages through evolution not be inheritable too?
If this site takes off, I'm going to be extremely annoyed because I had this same idea a few months ago but didn't implement it. I'm an idiot.
The last table in this one is interesting: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0005.p...