Other Evolutionary Theories
Other suggested evolutionary accounts include: a long cultural history encouraging scholarship and learning; a contribution of talent in the study of Torah to social success in Jewish communities; the enforcement of a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers to educate their sons, whose high cost caused voluntary conversions, explaining a large part of a reduction in the size of the Jewish population; that historic persecution of European Jews fell disproportionately on people of lower intelligence.
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