Here’s what I mean by forehead slope. Take Brock Lesnar as a very radical example:
Brock also displays some archaic giganticism, at least a little socket depth, and a mostly melon back of head. He’s socially comfortable and charismatic, pragmatic, personally guarded, plays a great villain, and prefers an introverted country lifestyle.
Here are some examples of vertical foreheads:
Here’s an intermediate 45 degree slope (with deep eye sockets and major occipital mass to boot):
The meaning of the slope
The more vertical the forehead, the greater the mass of the prefrontal cortext portion of the brain. This results in a greater tendency to think in terms of ethical universals, rather than unselfconscious pragmatism. So for example, high foreheads are going to be concerned with sophisticated ideals, treating everyone according to fair principles, and self-monitoring to ensure this. Very sloped foreheads will be less self-monitoring in this regard and have much less tendency to employ sophisticated universal ethical reasoning.
Ceteris paribus, a higher forehead means greater brain mass and therefore greater IQ. But of course things are never ceteris paribus. Overall brain volume is what counts for IQ.
This doesn’t mean that high foreheads are better than sloped foreheads. Ethical universals are responsible for lots of social dickishness, maladjustment, and historical evils. Much depends on what sort of universals are adopted. For example, Obama has a high forehead perfect for generating (and believing) hopechange blather, yet is sophist enough to justify simultaneously selling out those principles in order to govern according to elite consensus. Or at least, to not pursue them too far at the expense of the elite consensus.
The high forehead is an adaptation for a larger social group where abstract ethical principles are necessary to maintain social cohesion. The sloped forehead is a more primitive characteristic present in earlier hominids, including earlier Neanderthals. In the case of the Neanderthals, a high forehead and universal ethical facility was unnecessary, since the small tribe allowed cohesion based on lifelong relationships.
If Tex is correct and the Amud Neanderthals’ vertical foreheads have been fraudulently reconstructed as sloped foreheads by mainstream anthropology, this means that right before their extinction Neanderthals had adapted to living in larger social groups.
Adriaa “the forehead” Richards, quadroon diversicop, gets Anony-canned
A perfect example of high forehead causing trouble is the recent Adriaa Richards Twitter kerfluffle. Tl;dr – diversihire dev evangelist quadroon Twitter feminazi photo shames two nerd devs giggling over an innocuous “dongle” joke, resulting in one being fired. Outrage ensues, Anonymous responds with DDoS on Adriaa’s company, interrupting service to their clients, and company fires Adriaa (hooray).
Observe the offending nerds. Weedy Thallish fellow on the left was fired.
Adriaa went full feminazi because she’s a true believer and a retarded overentitled negress. Such high priestards have trouble knowing the line, because they so seldom encounter one. Her high forehead allowed her to summon abstract high moral dudgeon over a triviality. Had she possessed a more pragmatic slope, she mightn’t have martyred herself out of a job; but she also wouldn’t have been so good at it in the first place. Even now, her defenders are legion.
In her view, she was “standing up for the future of programming,” “the canary in the coalmine,” and other such universalist nonsense. Brainy beware.