Differences you posit, but they’re inevitable. I’m not insulting you. I’m stating my strong opinion that your beliefs here lead inexorably to eugenics, to value judgements. I am 5’6” and 150 soaking wet; my Jewish best friend is 6’2” and built like a line backer, so we have very different genes - which don’t correlate to our emotional or intellectual capabilities. Similarly, there are diseases ashkenazi Jews are more prone to get than others, and those black folks are more prone to get, yet again, no correlation to capabilities we’re discussing. It was recently thought by many that black people are genetically superior athletes. That’s been debunked.

The book puts it this way, after exhaustively explaining why some geographical sets of humans “advanced” faster than others, and why innovations hit some groups faster than others (I briefly explained it, but in a nutshell, geography and topography, and the needs and opportunities they created). When any innovation - writing, domestication of plants or animals, you name it - was introduced to a previously “ignorant group”, it was instantly, without hesitation adopted to the fullest. American Indians immediately became superior horseman, hunter-gatherers immediately master agriculture, literally without one single exception. That’s the claim in the book. That would not happen with people genetically hampered from doing so.

So I strongly suggest you give it another read with an open mind.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 01/31/2024 4:50PM]