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Do Ashkenazi Jews have a genetic advantage when it comes to intelligence?
The Utah researchers Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending proposed that Ashkenazi Jews have a genetic advantage in intelligence, and that the advantage arose from natural selection for success in middleman occupations (moneylending, selling, and estate management) during the first millennium of their existence in northern Europe, from about 800 C.E. to 1600 C.E.
This is slightly old news (in terms of a couple of centuries), but Judas just published a tell-all account of his side of his spat with Jesus Christ. Turns out everyone's favorite pariah was just misunderstood. He was the one who actually understood JC, the world has been pillorying the wrong guy for almost two thousand years.
I'd been hearing a bit about the whole discovery for a while now, and finally went and picked up the National Geographic story on how the Gospel of Judas came to be found and published.
The article is well done, if a bit short. The NG website also includes a lot of perfunctory interactive material that appears to be more or less very boring. I need to find a good history of early Christianity. Any suggestions?
