1. What is intelligence? (in science)
Intelligence is the usage of imagination to project the known into the unknown, as a method of predicting and preparing for circumstances and so to more efficiently deal with them.
As such intelligence collects sensual data and constructs abstractions, or mental models, which it can then use to analyze and to find patterns of predictable behavior.
Because these abstractions cannot be measured or observed, intelligence is measured by the outcome or by the organism's ability to adapt and to predict.
2. What is race? (in science)
Race is a human distinction, based on physical markers, meant to distinguish between group that share a common heritage.
A common heritage which resulted in the very markers used to differentiate them.
Color, shape, sound and all the human senses are employed to distinguish categories and so, even here, they are used no less.
3. What is the genetic basis of intelligence? (in science)
Intelligence is an evolutionary mutation which offers an advantage to the organism possessing it. This advantage is established and then passed on in the same way all traits are.
Intelligence is a reaction to environmental conditions.
Species that do not need to evolve, because their environments and their viability within them, remain relatively stable, change very little.
Species that are challenged by their environment to adapt or perish reproduce the traits that facilitate this survival and pass them on to future generations.
Thusly a challenging environment will cause a growth in intellect or in some other mutation that overcomes it.
In the case of human beings it is evident that their intellect resulted in a population explosion which forced interspecies pressures.
As a result certain groups dominated and pushed others into less hospitable environments.
The victors remained in their original environments and so had very little reason to evolve further. The vanquished were forced into areas alien and inhospitable to them, forcing an adaptation.
Geography, at that time, was crucual. This geograpgy isolated these groups and prevented interbreeding. This resulted in a long period of genetic isolation.
The challenging environment of the vanquished had a profound effect on their genetic makeup. Their physical adaptation and alterations mirrored a general alteration, since the mind and body dichotomy is a human myth.
Mind/Body are the same phenomena evaluated within a different context.
Thee is no separation or difference. Each is a manifestation of the flux, temporality, and so appearance exposes essence as mind is body and body is mind.
Eventually this divergence, coupled with what Gold describes as ideal conditions, resulted in these vanquished groups to return to their primordial grounds as conquerors.
It would be like a son leaving his father's home, while his brother remains there under the sheltering walls of his homestead.
The prodigal son eventually returns, changed by his experiences away from his father's home to find his brother relatively unchanged.
Since you believe your premise is valid, give me one evidence for each of the above that is accepted by scientists. Or go back and read spurious' post
http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1590045&postcount=154
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Since when has the monkey-man become the final judgment on reality?
insane! And what are Americans? what education do most of them have to even say what DNA is?