{"id":12382,"date":"2009-04-20T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_jewish_legacy_inscribed_on_genes\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:00:17","slug":"la_times_jewish_legacy_inscribed_on_genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12382","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8211;Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:17 one morning, after a long night searching a database of scientific journals from his disheveled home office in Albuquerque, [Gregory] Cochran fired off an e-mail to his collaborator Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve figured it out, I think,&#8221; Cochran typed. &#8220;Pardon my crazed excitement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;faulty&#8221; genes, Cochran concluded, make Jews smarter.<\/p>\n<p>That provocative &#8212; some would say inflammatory &#8212; hypothesis has landed Cochran and Harpending in the middle of a charged debate about the link between IQ and DNA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-sci-jewish-iq18-2009apr18,0,2228388.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 3:17 one morning, after a long night searching a database of scientific journals from his disheveled home office in Albuquerque, [Gregory] Cochran fired off an e-mail to his collaborator Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12382\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,429,155,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}