In Darwinian terms, the key is survival (procreation), not evolution per se. It's too soon to judge which strategies will be successful in the long run. That is, having babies naturally, getting sick, dying young, etc may all be evolutionarily brilliant.

Regarding race, the trend is one of erasure. 95% of the children of ethnically Japanese immigrants to Canada choose non-Japanese partners. Black isn't scary anymore; it's exotic. Etc, etc. The world is going light-brown in a landslide, and sorry to all the blondes and green eyes, but you're yesterday's trash. 


"A modern man lives in sleep, in sleep he is born and in sleep he dies."

Diamond responds correctly to them accusing him of determinism. I've learned in the past days that hard core relativism/constructivism is a strategy to hide ignorance, and that this ignorance is a result of lazy armchair researchers. Thinkers like Diamond, who actually do field research and ample lecture are the ones we should pay attention.

We smart INTJs are superior since we are smart and understand computers. Those other people who aren't as smart as us but have more children are genetically inferior. Or are they? Whose genes will be here in a thousand years? Also, look at what 'successful' people are like. They are often fat and out of shape, near sighted and lack basic survival skills if, heaven forbid, the supermarkets close and food becomes scarce. Those primitive aborigines won't skip a beat if technology goes tits up. The ability to collect lots of paper with images of deceased notables on it does not a superior man make.