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I have heard of this theory, and certainly only the most fit of the African-Americans could survive the very grueling and demanding life of being out in the fields. This is just how natural selection works of course, so its possible that their inclination and propensity towards athleticism was sharpened during the course of their slavery.

I find it hard to believe that such a short time period would allot a people such great superior athletic genes, and to be honest I think Black athleticism is blown out of proportion. Blacks though definitely have a disproportional advantage in an emotional and visceral sense relative to their cognitive/intellectual set of skills, and science has proved this, so I think we have to realize this.

The frameworks of some Paleo-Negroids/Sudanids/Nord-Sudanids/Sahelids can all be very robust, wiry, and have a great propensity towards a muscle orientation, which can make them explosively athletic. That said it varies in each individual, and I doubt that slavery itself could cause such a superior athletic gene to arise and activate itself, if it was not always there in some potential form.


Its pretty obvious to me that their athleticism was there beforehand, and I would not say that slavery created this superior athletic gene, but perhaps only extrapolated or exaggerated it. I think this would sort of be like saying persecution, social isolation, and the need to be intelligent in order to survive a very unforgiving social setting made the Ashkenazi Jews more intelligent.

I mean its probable, but I would need consistent evidence to show this to be true, and doubt that the duration of their slavery was long enough to make an adequate conclusion on the situation. That said the Ashkernazi Jews were persecuted for a long enough time frame and isolated from society that I can say that it is fair that they developed a highly intelligent gene pool via natural selection.