The Bushmen are one of the most unique populations in the human species, having been genetically and culturally isolated from most other humans for tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. And yet despite their incredible uniqueness and ancient splitting off date, almost nothing is known about their intelligence level; indeed political correctness prevents scientists from even asking the question.
Given that Bushmen split from the rest of our species before behavioral modernity appeared, their IQs hold the answer to questions that scientists have been asking for decades. Was the Upper Paleolithic Revolution (the sudden explosion of art and advanced tools some 70 to 40 kya) a cultural change or a genetic change?
With Bushman on the verge of extinction and political correctness only growing stronger, we may never be able to test more Bushmen, let alone raise them in white upper class homes and see if their scores improve, let alone scan whole genomes for IQ variants.
But fortunately the genetics of Bushmen are preserved in the South African Coloureds and the IQs of these have been well studied. They have a phenotypic IQ of 82 and, I estimate, a genetic IQ of 85.

Based on the above graphic, Coloureds are are 19% Bantu, 20% White, 8% East Asian, 22% South Asian, 28% Bushmen and 3% other. The other is probably Southeast Asians. In their book, The Intelligence of Nations, Lynn & Becker cite a 1996 study by Hadidjaja et al. in which samples of Indonesian kids obtained Raven IQs (corrected for Flynn effect) of about 80 to 86, or roughly 83. Given Indonesia’s 0.529 HDI in 1991, I used a technique to estimate their genetic IQs at 93. Meanwhile, I’ve estimated that South African Whites, Indians, and Blacks have genetic IQs of 98, 92 and 80 respectively. Armed with the genetic IQ of Coloureds (85) and the genetic IQs of five of the six races that compose their ancestry, and their relative proportions, solving for the fifth race (Bushmen) is simple algebra:
Coloureds genetic IQ = 0.19(Bantu genetic IQ) + 0.2(White genetic IQ) + 0.08%(East Asian genetic IQ) + 0.22(South Asian genetic IQ) + 0.28(Bushman) + 0.03(Southeast Asian IQ)
85 = 0.19(80) + 0.2(98) + 0.08(105) + 0.22(92) + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 0.03(93)
85 = 15.2 + 19.6 + 8.4 + 20.24 + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ) + 2.79
85 = 66.23 + 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)
85 – 66.23 = 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)
18.77 = 0.28(Bushmen genetic IQ)
18.77/0.28 = Bushmen genetic IQ
67 = Bushmen genetic IQ
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has bemoaned the influence of American critical race theory on the French social sciences, blaming them for undermining France’s race- and ethnicity-blind universalism.
when france says you’re too woke…you’re way too fucking woke.
What % of France in non-white?
You’re saying Bushmen are [redacted by pp, 2022-02-02]
Did I really type something inappropriate there?
There’s a lot of admixture estimates for Cape Colored:
30.1% Khoe-San, 24% European, 10.5% East Asian, 19.7% South Asian, 15.6% West/East African
33% European
5% Indian
7% East Asian
45% Khoi
10% Black
Khoisan: (32–43%)
Bantu-speaking Africans: (20–36%)
Ethnic groups in Europe: (21–28%)
Asian peoples: (9–11%)
LOL! Where did you find all these?
I also tried calculating their genotypic IQs once and saved the admixture data I found, you’d have too google ’em for sources.
what wilson did do and which bret weinstein agrees with is…
he gave an evolutionary explanation for genocide…even if he didn’t intend to.
he was on Charlie Rose a while back and he said he’d worked with some mathematicians at harvard and they’d proved that “group selection” is a thing…or rather, if one believes in darwinism, then group selection can exist.
as bret weinstein said: “hitler was a monster. but he was a rational monster.”
I miss Charlie Rose. Stupid Me Too Movement.
Pepe I thought you were a librul
I miss Chris Matthews.
Oh God yes! And his Me Too offence was merely telling a woman to look into the camera so he could size her up.
Wilson and his co-author E. O. Wilson have become well known for the quote, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary”.[3] This quotation appeared in their paper, “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology”.
the “everything else is commentary” is an example of how these two knew about jews. this phrase is from hilel, the founder of modern judaism.