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Originally Posted by Turn Prophet
It changes that "fact" tremendously, since we're talking about long-term historical trends. If the relative impoverishment of "warmer" nations is a factor in contemporary IQ, how can you say with any kind of certainty that it should apply to the past, when "warmer" cultures were considerably more technologically developed? .
well, certainty and historie...
why dont you tell me one logic reason why this should be a modern phenomenon, a reason why it should not have been like that all the time?
or why did they loose their edge in evolution to others?
(not that i think the technological edge is actually a positive thing at all, i just call it an edge, since the majority of people do that, and i think that evolution already backfires and kills our happyness with modern way of western life)
they were more developed because they had fresh food, like vegetables/fruits avaible and many animals that they could easily hunt. why is saudi-arabis rich? they have oil.
that is why. they had the more favourable circumstances.... under those conditions the less intelligent will develope quicker.
can you follow me now?
i dont get why you asked me that, since i already described that in my last post:
"very old cultures in scandinavia might have already had a higher avg IQ,
but due to the lower temperatur it was a lot harder to get the evolution to a certain point, where basics are save (food, warm place etc.)
what i want to say is that warmer regions were able to reach their maximum of evolution way quicker, since all facors beside average intelligence (IQ) were favourable for them. but after evolution got further and further, the hotter areas were left behind to some point, and the colder areas started to profit from their intelligence."
Last edited by HU4holes; 05-30-2012 at 06:46 PM.