/sci/ - Science & Math

I read this quite recently and I enjoyed it as a sort of loose collection of historical and anthropological tidbits. And I'm not at all surprised that it won all the pulitzers and nobels and purple hearts back when it came out. It is pure
>"huh, seems that I've been factually correct and morally right in my worldview all along"
propaganda for the Western liberal type.

A funny part that stuck with me from the book:
>African mules' genetics make them so aggressive, that they can't be domesticated even though many civilizations have attempted it.
>Asian mules' genetics make them more docile, but they need a wetter climate.
>But luckily they can interbreed and produce perfectly fertile offspring which can be domesticated and survive the heat etc.
The point of the chapter was of course, that the difference between the ability to be domesticated, gave an advantage to the people near the Asian mule and a disadvantage to the Africans. But he made it explicitly clear that it was all 100% genetic. And that they could interbreed (even though being technically different species of mules) creating little less aggressive and little more docile mules. Just lmao.

Very closely related animals which evolved in different geographical locations developed radically different behavioral patterns. That is in the book "debunking" the very same phenomenon in humans. I guess the author is a creationist or something.

1. Get some oil
2. Take out your finger and dip it in said oil
3. put it back on your belly button
4. try pulling it out