What follows is a sociobiological rebuttal of white supremacy. It purports to be a proof that no race can lay the claim to outright superiority as the best evolved example of homo sapiens sapiens.
Anatomically modern man (homo sapiens sapiens) spread into continental Europe approximately 35,000 years ago. The land was within the icy grip of the Great Ice Age or Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to 10,000 years ago) and the glacial shelf reached, at most extreme global coverage, to the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. At the time of entry into Europe, man would have congregated himself in small, nomadic bands of modestly extended family (as this was the most efficient grouping for hominid survival prior to the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago). As these first pioneers of Europe spread across the entirety of the continent, they would have remained largely isolated from one another due to the scarcity of resources within each square kilometer and the vast territory needed to extract sufficient subsistence.
These strict territorial parameters dictated by the harsh climate conditions of the epoch would have prevented major travel and cultural exchange. Not only was such travel hazardous, it was not necessary for survival or improvement of living conditions. In order for long expeditions outside a band’s usual territory to be fruitful, there would have to be a vital resource not found on home icepack to justify them. The absence of any such vital resource is clearly demonstrated by the known uniform and heterogeneous distribution of living staples (wild game, stones for tool making) present at the time. In addition, anthropology has not noted any dramatic differences in Caucasian type group survival strategies in widely separated areas of Europe. Thus hominid groups remained mostly without substantial contact with one another.
This lack of substantial interaction would have prevented major genetic exchange. As a consequence, unusual genetic traits found within any particular band would have remained largely within the domain of that unit. These units must have been very unified in purpose and disciplined in behavior in order to stay alive in their unforgiving environs. So any individual actor that presented a dramatic behavioral departure from his compatriots would either be quickly corrected or eliminated. One would expect that a person with an extraordinary cognitive endowment (i.e. an IQ as high as human variability allows) might not mesh well with his fellows. Such a specimen (having demonstrated a lack of fitness) would have poor prospects for reproduction within his own band and even worse ones with groups not related to him by blood (and, therefore, not even inclined to tolerate him for sentimental reasons). In this way, vast cognitive superiority may have been checked.
Those who purport Caucasian racial superiority often cite the greatness of Western culture as proof. They say Western history is replete with towering intellects that advanced the epic progress of human knowledge and technology just as Prometheus stole fire from the gods. Such men, no doubt, were of the same caliber of intellect as the individuals psychohistory (a speculative forensic academic disciple that gauges talent of historical figures with modern measures by evaluating records of their cognitive output) has suggested were the most successful American Presidents. These heads of state are believed to have fallen within the IQ range of 130 to 170 (130 is the IQ of the average PH.D., is two standard deviations beyond the mean, and people at or above this level represent 2.2 percent of the total population). This provides anecdotal evidence that people with IQs in this range make the optimal leaders of men. White supremacists hold up the example of such men as the torches on their castle walls.
However, the stronghold of their position may be penetrated and vitiated when one considers that an individual with an IQ exceeding the optimal range of leadership (above 170) would probably been unable to disperse his genes within the critical formative years of the white race’s evolution. If such an individual had been able to widely distribute his genetic traits, it would have likely spawned a new species (speciation or differentiation of species) as has occurred throughout the history of hominid evolution with the advent of increased cranial capacity (i.e. homo habilis became homo erectus with a 50 percent increase in cranial capacity and an attendant more advanced culture); the genetic adaptive advantage would be so great as to militate it. As this did not happen, it is unlikely whites possess the “spark” in the range of their genetic variation to claim a towering status above other races.
Different races may have higher propensities for superior ability in distinctly measurable cognitive areas (i.e. spatial or verbal reasoning) bred into them by their group survival strategies, but it cannot be plausibly argued that any one race has “cornered the market” on all these talents and may thus be called the Neitzschean ubermensch.
