DNA Pioneer: Africans are less intelligent

One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion.

James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unravelling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.

The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade.

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece

OP here..  i don't know. Are there genetic differences between people?  Yes.  Do Africans score lower on IQ tests?  Yes.But to say absolutely that the former is the sole determinant for the later seems to be an overreach.  Smart people can come in all colors.

Childhood malnutrition is a more accurate indicator of adult intelligence than race.  It's funny how people forget you need complex fatty acids for brain development, and if you're growing up eating rice and stale bread you're not going to be Einstein Jr.