Moment of Silence: Antoni Dobrowolski

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It's a negative-selection effect. If you put mass numbers under extreme pressure, most of them die quickly -- leaving the strongest, smartest, luckiest, most durable members. Incomplete genocide is the dumbest thing you can do; it's like spraying a field with pesticides for decades, or quitting the antibiotics after the symptoms start to clear up. You just wind up with superbugs, or really potent enemies. So looking at concentration camp survivors, or descendants from the cross-Atlantic slave trade, there's a nudge toward the tougher end of the scale, because the bottleneck killed off so many of the weaker people that the stronger traits leave a more visible footprint. Simple biology. It amazes me how few people grasp this.