/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9006571
There will be a war first. It's going to be bad.

>>9000785
I might argue that behaviors are genetic, that europeans got the best technology the fastest because they went through tens of thousands of years of genetic selection where those who didn't store food for the winter died. Those who couldn't get along with a social group died. Over and over, each generation, the dumb and hostile were culled by nature. There is another thing nobody ever talks about, light-colored eyes transmitting more information about a person's thoughts through involuntary pupil dilation and contraction. People with light irises easily differentiated from their pupils sort of have a rudimentary second set of eyebrows that they can't control. This looks to me like it's a case of a random mutation being beneficial, not just increased breeding because of the novelty or "beauty" of the first people with blue eyes, but actually being beneficial to communication. The combination of all these things look like they work together to create a breed of humans that are measurably better at cooperation and slightly crippled against deception, which is why they were able to build those societies that could produce boats that could cross the Atlantic, and a few hundred years later built boats that could land on the moon.

One thing you see all over the world is that great cities, great historical societies, tended to be on peninsulas or islands. China and Babylon don't fit this mold, but Japan, Korea, basically all of Europe, the Yucatan, they all were isolated from attack on 3 or 4 sides by water. The people had to find a way to live together and get enough food in this confined area, so really it's hard to separate human biology from human behavior when you get down to brass stacks, is all I'm saying.