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- #341
Oh, stop already.
Let's be blunt, human beings - Homo Sapiens Sapiens, has existed for at least 350,000 years.
For most of that time, a H. Sapiens living in Europe was no different than one living in Africa or Asia as hunter-gatherers.
6000 years ago, some H. Sapiens discovered agriculture was more reliable than hunting and gathering. But it wasn't your beloved white people who got there first, it was brown people in Egypt and Mesopotamia and the Indus and Yangtze valleys. Not because they were genetically superior, just they were living close to rivers.
Once agriculture develops it begins to have different evolutionary pressures than a Paleolithic existence. People need to plan ahead for at least a year. They must defer gratification. No matter how hungry they get they cannot eat the grain for nest spring's planting season. They cannot butcher and eat all of their farm animals.
What Paleolithic hunters could not eat spoiled. There was no reason to defer gratification.
Agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent among Caucasians about eleven thousand years ago. The Bantu only adopted it about four thousand years ago.
This explains why, when blacks and whites earn the same amount of money, whites are more likely to save money; blacks are more likely to go into debt.
Civilization exerts even more selective pressure for intelligence. Intelligent men tend to become prosperous. Until fairly recently they tended to have more children who survived and reproduced.