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Sept. 21, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Douglas Whitman: "Amazing Racial Differences" (2018)
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Okay, today we're going to talk about human diversity and our evolutionary journey toward that racial diversity.
You know, our species has been around for about 200,000 years, and we've been very successful, and so we spread all over the Earth, and we come to inhabit nearly every terrestrial habitat, from high mountains lacking oxygen to blazingly hot deserts to Arctic...
Cold areas.
And as we spread into these new harsh habitats, we're genetically adapted and sometimes in quite fascinating ways.
And this is our story.
It's us.
It explains how we came to be the way we are and why the different human groups are so different.
Thank you.
Before we get started talking about humans, I want to review just a little bit of evolutionary theory.
Now, nearly all widespread species on Earth come to occupy different geographic areas.
And when they occupy these different areas over time, they adapt genetically to each different place.
And, for example, with these rabbits and hares, as rabbits have come...
To live in the Arctic, or in the desert, or in tropical rainforests, or in swamp areas.
In each case, they've adapted their morphology, and their physiology, and their coloring, and all sorts of numerous traits.
And for example, in the Arctic, the raps have tiny ears to prevent freezing, whereas in the hot...
In deserts they have large areas in which they can grow long legs as well and very little fur.
Rabbits in swamps and in tropical areas where there's a lot of mosquitoes tend to have really thick fur that prevents the mosquitoes from getting in and biting them.
And this is evolution.
It's happening all around us and it can be amazingly fast.
In fact, within a single generation.
And we've now documented tens of thousands of examples of adaptive evolution, including thousands of cases of extremely rapid or localized evolution in animals and plants.
What non-scientists don't understand is that humans are exactly the same as all other plants and animals on Earth.
We evolved and every human race, sub-race, and geographic population has more or less adapted to its local habitat.
And these adaptations are both cultural and genetic.
Okay, rule one: all human traits are influenced by both genes and environment.
All. Human traits are influenced by both genes and environment.
And these traits could be anything from the number of fingers on your hand to behaviors such as shyness or aggression.
Because we get our genes from our parents, all human traits are at least partially genetically determined and inherited.
Now, throughout this talk, I'll be speaking about average or mean differences between human populations, races and subraces, and geographic populations.
Which brings us to Rule 2. There are always exceptions.
There's always outliers or cases where the two ends of bell curves mean.
And for example, this population here is quite distinct from this population here, and so their averages differ substantially, yet you may find an exceptional individual in this population that overlaps some individuals in this population.
But this talk isn't about exceptions.
This talk is about averages.
So when I say that pygmies are shorter than Maasai, I'm talking about the average size of a pygmy versus a Maasai.
Now, maybe somewhere in some universe there is a pygmy who's taller than the smallest Maasai.
But again, we're not talking about, this talk isn't about those exceptions.
And the exceptions are very interesting, but that's another part.
So now, let's go and talk about amazing racial differences in humans and present some hypotheses for possibly why these differences exist.
And science has now documented tens of thousands of racial differences, and they generally fall into about 10 other categories.
Morphological differences, physiological, racial differences, biochemical, racial differences, disease, development, life history, behavior, IQ, genetic, performance, and culture.
For each of these, there are dozens to thousands of divergent racial differences.
Way too many to talk about.
And so this is a few of the different racial differences in morphology.
From body size, body shape, body skin color, freckles, hair color, and so on.
A webbing between fingers and toes.
The shape and consistency of finger and toenails.
Having multiple fingers on your hands.
And I found these in about half an hour.
There's probably a hundred times more differences than are here.
And these are some physiological differences.
Now, in this talk, I could go through all the different categories of racial differences and read each of these to you and discuss them.
I could tell you the genes behind a great many of these and what type of gene it is and the loci and where they're found.
I could point out the exact nucleotide differences between the different populations for these different genes.
I could show you which chromosomes on the human chromosomes, these unique racial genes exist, and where on the chromosomes they lie.
And I could show you the racial or geographic distribution of these different traits or these different genes.
But honestly, this would take years.
I mean, you could get an undergrad degree on just racial morphology alone.
And besides that, it's kind of boring.
So instead, what I've decided to do today is...
Present just a few of, to me, the most interesting cases of racial, genetic, and phenotypic divergence.
Now, as one travels from high latitudes, like the cold north, to the tropics, we see that mammals change dramatically.
In the cold north, mammals...
Tend to be large, with smaller legs, smaller ears, very thick fur layer, and fat layer.
Whereas in the tropics, mammals of the same group tend to be skinny, smaller, with larger ears, longer legs, and very little fat, and sparse fur.
And we see the same thing with all sorts of mammals.
In fact, the deer in tropic regions are so small that they're about the size of a small dog.
And this is so common among mammals, it has a name.
Halkoff Bergman's role.
Halkoff Bergman's role.
And generally, what has happened, and this is the main theme of this talk, Every localized population of animal and plant adapts to this particular habitat.
And thus, animals do best in the habitat that they evolved in.
If you move a polar bear to the tropics, it's going to have a hard time.
Okay, Bergman's rule happens for humans as well.
As we go from the Arctic or sub-Arctic, In other areas to the tropics, we find people in the far north latitudes tend to be compact, fairly heavy, with a thick layer of fat distributed around their body.
By the way, it's interesting that Mongolians I have fat on the sides of their head.
If you feel like behind the neck, there's a fat layer there where most Europeans and all Africans, the skin lies directly over the skull.
There's no fat insulation.
But these people have adapted.
They've evolved genetically for their habitat.
Just the reverse is in tropical hot rainforests.
People tend to be small with less fat.
In some cases, absolutely no fat under their skin.
Also, people who evolve in flat deserts or grasslands where they have to walk a lot to find food have evolved to have extremely long legs and thin arms and legs which allow Cooley,
whereas people who evolve in tropical rainforests tend to be very small.
And, for example, an Eskimo man will typically weigh 50% more than a Vietnamese and 70% more than a Korean rainforest.
And part of that There's many factors that go into that, but part of that is simply having more surface area for radiation.
And so, if you take two men, a tall man, let's say a Maasai and an Inuit or Eskimo, of exactly the same weight and same volume, and you skin them, you will find that the tall man will have a large surface area of skin,
and the The person from a cold habitat will have a lowered surface area for skin.
In this case, this man has 1.7 times as much skin area, which allows him to radiate heat and also sweat and thus cool in his hot habitat.
And these are simply morphological features for the same thing we do.
When it's cold, we kind of ball up like that.
And when we're super hot, we'll take off our shirt and kind of wave our arms around and brush up our long hair or whatever.
Thank you.
And people living in the mountains tend to have short legs.
That are very well muscled with very thick leg bones.
I lived in Papua New Guinea and I walked behind a native going up these slippery clay mountains.
And in front of me was a European guy, tall, about 6'6".
And this native would just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like a mountain goat.
This American, every step he took, his leg flew out from under him, and he'd twist around and fall down, and I was sure he was going to break a leg.
Now, that tall American would do much better on a flat plane and in a hand-to-hand combat from the little Papua New Guinean, but in his home habitat, on his home turf, that Papua New Guinean was far superior because of his body size and the length of his legs.
Okay, there's racial differences in fat distribution.
Mammals that live in the far north have an insulating layer of fat all over their body.
And sometimes those that live in hot deserts, it's still valuable to store fat when there's lots of food.
But they'll put the fat in one spot, which then allows the rest of the body to cool.
And there are some human groups that we believe have done the same thing.
Such as this hot and hot, now known as koi koi, and instead of distributing the fat everywhere, they've evolved to place it in one part, which allows the rest of the body to cool.
And this probably has also been selected through sexual selection as well.
So again, different human races have adapted their body form to their local environment.
Now let's talk about skin color.
Skin color varies around the earth.
Typically at high latitudes people tend to evolve pale skin and along the tropics they evolve extremely dark skin.
And this has to do with the damage.
That UV radiation can cause and also the lack of UV radiation.
And so again, each race has adapted for its local sunlight intensity habitat.
And when you take African people and move them to high latitudes, their dark skin blocks UV radiation so they can't make vitamin D. They get a lot of rickets.
They used to, but now we have vitamin D. Western men have fortified vitamin D in a lot of foods, and so this rarely happens anymore.
But just the reverse happens.
When pale people, Nordic people, move and go to the tropics, they sometimes get really damaging sunburns.
White people living in the tropics will wrinkle up fairly fast, followed by skin cancer and other diseases.
For example, very extremely high UV radiation destroys B12, causing anemia, diarrhea, infertility, miscarriages, and death of childbirth.
Brown-skinned people tan incredibly fast.
My Albanian friend, the first day of spring, we both go outside.
We're working in a garden.
And the next day, I'll have a sunburn line past my sleeve, and he will be tanned.
In 24 hours, this guy tans.
But again, he comes from a home race that has inherited those characteristics.
Again, a major theme of this talk is that each human race tends to be superior in the place where they fall because they're highly adapted to that place.
Okay. Hair.
Long, straight hair is an insulating blanket and cold habitat, but it's a problem in wet, hot tropics because it blocks Cooling and encourages skin disease.
Hence, most rainforest people have very frizzy accruity here, so it acts as sort of a protective cap while leaving the back of the neck free to cool and dry to prevent those skin diseases.
Eye color, light eyes, supposedly improves sight in foggy, cloudy environments.
But really, most likely, light-colored eyes, blonde and red hair, probably evolved under sexual selection.
At one time, all humans had dark hair and dark eyes.
And when these unique mutations arose, these individuals were probably sought after as mates.
And they still are, by the way.
Okay, let's talk about physiological differences and one great one is cold tolerance.
And now I want to talk about one of my favorite races or populations of all time.
These are the people who live at the tip of South America in Tierra del Fuego.
And Terra del Fuego is a horrible, horrible, nasty place to live.
The water is ice cold.
The roaring forties wind are constantly blowing.
Every tree is leaning over a horizontal.
And this is a warm summer day in Territory.
Territory.
Now, there used to be a race of people down there known as the Terra del Fuegans.
And incredibly, they were basically naked.
And they made their living by entering the sea at low tide, night or day, ice or not, and pulling a shellfish off the rocks.
And they also collected, carried them, and here they are carrying blobs of running blubber up off the beach.
And they foraged on land as well.
They made primitive huts of sticks and some vegetation.
Occasionally they placed an animal pelt over there.
And they slept on the ground where the sleet and the rain came through and wet the ground.
So they slept at night, nearly naked, on the cold ground.
These are tough, tough, tough people, highly physically and physiologically adapted to the frigid wet habitat with large compact bodies and a thick fat layer much similar to Eskimos and Siberia.
Now, Charles Darwin visited these people during his voyage around the world.
He claimed they were the most abject and miserable creatures he had ever beheld.
But they had a lot of spiritualness, and they were in tune with their native environment, and through their oral history, civilized men could have learned a lot about life.
why men sometimes hate the women during the winter but not the dogs, a foe then replied, dog catch otter, woman no catch otter.
And not a otter, not a catch an otter.
That's...
So Darwin was dumbstruck when he observed sleep falling and melting on the naked bodies of both adults and babies.
And they didn't even seem to notice it.
Now, if you don't believe in racial differences, I'd like you to do this.
Next winter when there's a blistered or an ice storm, take off all your clothes and sleep outside.
*laughter*
Darwin tells this story.
At night, the Europeans built a fire on the shore and sat around it, chilled, although they had their jackets and blankets around them.
The Fawagans sat a few feet behind them, naked, sweating.
Again, these people had evolved different types of physiology.
They were extremely cold adapted.
And I'll tell you an anecdote from my house.
My family was very lucky because I was associated with the university and there was a constant inflow.
of foreign scholars and students.
And we had some extra rooms, so we always had foreigners living in our house.
My children grew up with people of every race and from every continent, eating dinner with us, watching TV, going on vacations, which was sometimes so odd.
And I have so many stories, and one that I look back and just laugh about is we had Ray New.
From Thailand, living with us for six months.
And she was racially Thai.
And some of the Thai people evolved in hot, damp, lowland rainforests.
And if you've never been in Thailand in the rainforest in the summer, it is absolutely brutal.
You can't move.
You just want to take off all your clothes and just pour water over your body.
Okay, so it was winter.
Rainy was cold.
I was paying 30 bucks a night to keep the house at 80 degrees in the middle of winter.
And she's sitting there watching TV in her long underwear that I bought her, her wool socks that I bought her, her down booties, her sweatpants, sweatshirt, her winter coat, her winter hat, and her big winter muffins.
And she's like that, trying to stay warm.
My two children...
Five and seven are sitting right next to her, kind of cuddled up to her, and they both stripped down to their underwear, and they're sweating because it's so dang hot in the house.
But Ray knew it was cold, because coming from a race from a tropical area, she was tiny, super thin, and absolutely no heat.
She was not adapted to the cold.
One more anecdote.
I have a friend who married an Eskimo woman, and it is a constant battle in our house.
Every time he walks down the hallway, he turns the thermostat up to 70. Every time she walks down the hallway, even though she's in shorts and t-shirt, she turns it down to 65. They've been having this battle ever since they got married.
This is the first time I was going to make a difference.
So, again, people who evolve in hot tropics are hot adapted and vice versa.
And this has real consequences.
African-American soldiers who get in Korea during the Korean War or who are posted up in Alaska or Greenland get frostbite at 20 times that of Native people because...
The native people, the Eskalos, the U.S., are adapted to it.
The black Africans coming from hot zones generally are not.
Different races are different.
Now, let's talk about altitude.
There are three places that I know of where humans have moved.
To high altitude and adapt because of the low oxygen up there.
And these are in Tibet, the Andes, and the highlands of Ethiopia.
And you know, when low land races ascend mountains, they get altitude sickness and other problems, sometimes leading to death because of the low oxygen levels.
Now, what's interesting about these three groups that I just talked about, Cubens, Andes, and Ethiopians, is each group has adapted to altitude, but each group has evolved a different set of gene-based adaptations.
It's fascinating, and it is exactly what we would expect from evolution.
Okay, now...
I'm going to tell you about my all-time favorite race or population.
These guys are incredible.
And these are the Baju from the Philippines.
They're known as sea gypsies because for about 2,000 years they lived on saloon boats and made their living foraging in or under the ocean.
These are the original water world people, if you remember that pretty bad movie.
A recent study shows amazing genetic adaptations that allows them to hold their breath for up to 13 minutes while descending down to as low as 200 feet below sea level.
This is incredible.
They possess underwater adapted eyes and genetic differences that impart them with an enlarged spleen which adds extra hemoglobin-rich blood to the bloodstream.
Okay, another physiological adaptation, lactose tolerance.
Lactose is a sugar in milk.
All mammal young have enzymes to break it down, but most adults don't, and therefore become sick from drinking milk or fresh milk products.
But a few populations on Earth that raise livestock evolve the mutations for lactose tolerance in adults.
These mutations gave these people a distinct competitive edge, and that's partly why Europeans have been so successful, because during the Middle Ages, during winter, they had a source of food,
and other people didn't.
That is milk from cows or sheep or goats.
Both? Lactose tolerance and underwater adaptations of the sea gypsies are cultural adaptations.
Cultural adaptations.
That is, they were selected because of the culture of those people.
Without that culture of growing sheep, goats, or cows, any mutation for lactose tolerance in adults would have died out because it would have had no use.
The same with the adaptations for underwater living.
If somebody in the desert has a mutation, For underwater living, their children aren't going to be any more advantaged, in fact they might even be disadvantaged, living out in the desert.
So those mutations are going to die out.
But the fact that some people have certain cultures, that is raising sheep or foraging underwater, they have culture then selected for those genes.
Humans make their own evolution.
This is fantastic.
And there's dozens of examples, including the 3,000-year-old caste system in India, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of genetically distinct caste or populations.
So what this means is because humans have different cultures.
Humans have different cultures.
They're undergoing different types of evolution right now as we speak.
Each culture is selecting for its particular evolution.
Now, once these genetic changes happen, then the genetic changes then feed back on the evolution and the culture.
For example, once...
Europeans had lactose hormones, and they started making everything out of milk, including cheeses and yogurts and cottage cheese and whatnot, and then that becomes a large part of our diet, which continues to select for it, and continues to change our culture,
and hence continues.
It's sort of a feed-forward, runaway evolution, the same way with selection for blue eyes and blonde hair.
That's a runaway evolutionary selection that just keeps going and going.
Okay, two of my favorite, all-time favorite groups are the Aborigines and the Bushmen.
The Bushmen have an incredible sense of smell.
One of the best of all human races.
Although they rival the aberrations.
Bushmen can sniff the ground and identify which individual human made that footstep.
When pursuing game, they will stop and smell the droppings of that game, of that animal, that wounded animal, to tell how much longer it has before it finally gives out and before it dies.
The Australian Aborigines are a fascinating group who have been genetically isolated for 50,000 years.
For that time, they've been hunter-gatherers, and they've retained, or at least evolved, an entire suite of traits that aids that particular lifestyle, including the best eyesight and possibly senses of smell, and also direction.
Bushmen never get lost.
And their eyesight is substantially better than Europeans who have good distance eyesight, but far, far, far superior from Chinese who don't have good eyesight,
who are nearsighted.
And these genetic differences...
Feedback into the culture, and for example, you'll notice with a lot of Asian paintings the background mountains are just in mist.
There's nothing there.
There's no detail.
Whereas in European paintings, you'll find fine detail in the distant mountains.
And part of the reason for that is that's what Chinese Han Chinese see.
When they get up and they look at a mountain range, they don't see it.
They just see kind of a blurriness.
They see a lot of detail in the front.
The Chinese are very good at sewing and doing stuff close up, but generally they have very, very poor eyesight and it feeds back into their culture and into their art.
So anyhow, the adaptations that we see in these are exactly the types of adaptations and genetic adaptations that we would expect for people who've...
We've been hunter-gatherers for 50,000 years.
And now people who live in cities are selected for just the opposite type of adaptations.
Let's talk about genetic diseases.
There's about 60,000 genetic diseases.
and virtually all are correlated with race, and some are restricted to a specific race or subrace or population.
Each area on earth has different human diseases and generally each human population has evolved some community to the local diseases but not to diseases in other places.
Hence, when Europeans first traveled to the tropics, they died like flies.
The average life expectancy of a British soldier in some areas of West Africa or India was about one year.
And in the tropics, there are graveyards full of missionary families, European missionary families, who went there to spread the word of God, but instead got a very fast journey straight to heaven.
Now, the exact opposite.
When New World Australians and Indians were brought to Europe, they died from minor European-type diseases such as cold, flu, measles, mumps, chickenpox.
In general, each human population evolved a set of traits that allowed that group to survive in its home environment.
Now, molecular biology allows us For the first time, to go and identify the genetic differences that cause these racial differences, and to genetically distinguish among different races and subraces.
It's interesting that human races are, on average, more distinct from one another than dog race.
People will admit that dog breeds differ, and this selection has only been going on for about 13,000 years, and really most of the selection has gone on in 500 years.
Evolution is pretty fast.
So people will believe that dog races differ, but they don't believe that there are differences in human races, even though the average distance between dog breeds and Between human races is about the same genetically.
So what does all this mean?
Well, it means race is real.
The different races are not equal.
They have different traits, and it's based on genes.
Now, a friend of mine, when he heard I was giving this talk, he said, yeah, well, which race is superior?
And he's Italian, and he thinks the Italian race is superior.
And here's the thing.
Each race has its own advantages and weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses.
And most races are superior in their home turf.
Most races have superior disease fighting capability to their local diseases.
But if you want to really take a look and see which race is far superior, the aborigines are superior at vision.
And they also have the thickest skull.
So the Aborigines have the most superior skull for getting bashed.
Tibetans are superior at high altitudes.
West Africans are superior at springing and jumping.
Europeans are superior at weightlifting and swimming.
Territifoyans are superior in the cold.
Stop trying to force all races to be equal.
It's not true.
It wastes our time, it divides us, and it's going to bankrupt us, to tell you the truth.
Instead, let's base our society on reality, not fantasy.
Look, we already, when you want to climb Mount Everest, you hire a Tibetan Sherpa.
You don't hire a Han Chinese.
When you want to win in a law court, you hire a Jewish lawyer.
I mean, Facebook is insane.
Every five minutes, Facebook just says,"We're fighting for equality and social justice." Okay, meanwhile, all their CEOs and their attorneys are Jewish.
Their technical staff is all Asian.
The guys who sweep the floor and...
Or the guards and the cafeteria workers are black and Hispanic.
Okay, Facebook.
And I'm talking to you, Zuckerberg.
If you want some social justice, put your Jewish friends, make them sweep the floor, and put your black guys who are driving your cars and doing custodial work, put them as your engineers and as your CEOs.
They're lying.
It's not true.
And here's just one other case.
And you see, people know the truth.
People know that race exists.
But they don't admit it for various reasons.
And even black people.
And I grew up in the ghetto.
And we all knew that the races were different.
We knew that the black kids were good in sports and dancing and were the most violent and the most...
They were smoking and trying to have sex in the sixth grade.
And on the other hand, the Chinese and Japanese kids were the most polite, the most honest.
They were the smartest.
We all knew that.
We all knew that.
And I knew it until I got to Berkeley when I found out that it was all and true.
Our eyes were lying, and in fact, everybody was equal.
Okay, here's just one last example of...
How people actually really know race exists.
Okay, you ask any black person, does race exist?
And they'll say no.
Yet, the company called African Ancestry, which is a company run by African Americans who do genetic testing for African Americans, on their website...
They say they've compiled a DNA database representing 85 ethnic groups from Africa.
Each of these groups has telltale genetic markers not found in other people.
Those markers were passed on genetically or generationally and appear in cells today.
And they now help more than 500,000 people reconnect with their roots and the family tree.
African ancestry determines specific countries.
And more often than not, specific ethnic groups, and we're talking about racial groups, ethnic groups of origin with an unrivaled level of detailed accuracy and confidence.
So, a half million African Americans obviously think that there are racial differences, populational differences, and that they're held in DNA.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be paid 200 bucks to have this test.
That's it.
The bottom line is we need to solve great diversity.
I'm a scientist.
I'm curious.
I think it's absolutely fantastic how different humans have evolved all these amazing traits.
And we're discovering more and more every day.
And we're finding the genes and the enzymes and the physiological processes, the metabolism, the development that bring this out.
And it's a wonderful, great story.
So let's just admit race exists and then move forward from there.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We'll have time for just a couple of questions.
If you'd like to come up and use this microphone for a question, we have time just for a couple of minutes.
You had mentioned
Some thousands of years ago, humans all had dark eyes.
Isn't it possible that some of the dark eyes varied a little bit, and their selection, and through sexual reproduction, the eyes got lighter and lighter?
Yes. Now, every one of these reasons that I said, they range from absolutely proven to more or less hypotheses to speculation.
And there is some variety.
Even among aborigines and some other people in eye color and hair color.
But Europeans are the ones that really just hit hard.
And there's some evidence that our skin color and our eye color came from interbreeding with Neanderthals who had been in Europe for much, much longer, for 100,000 years.
And we might have gotten those.
Those genes, and then once they're there, it starts a little bit slowly, but then it just spreads throughout the entire population.
Did that answer correctly?
I wanted to follow that up with, you mentioned mutation a lot, but the purpose of sexual reproduction is to produce variety, which is then active upon.
And I would think most, maybe 90% of evolution is a result of the variety produced by sexual.
Reproduction, and then the environment acts upon that, rather than mutations, which mostly are useless, and only start with one person, and they're rarely useful.
So, I guess my opinion is most evolution is driven by the variety produced by sexual reproduction, not mutations.
What's your opinion?
We could spend an entire semester on this, but basically, yes.
Variety is produced, and then the habitat, the environment, selects some children live, some die, and it changes our year.
One year it's cold that kills them, one year it's smallpox, the next year it's famine.
And so you have to keep bed-edging and keep producing a variety.
But once a mutation, and once all of these rare mutations occurs, and it's beneficial, for example, The first person to have adult lactose tolerance, amazingly, his or her children survived quite well because they had food all winter long,
and so they were able to survive, and their children survived, and their children survived, whereas the other ones did.
So yes, the mutations are rare, but when it's a good mutation, when it catches on, it can spread very rapidly.
And we can talk about all this stuff later.
You have a great perspective that specific populations are adapted to specific environments.
What do you think of the more general global theory, such as that of the late J.D. Russia who applied the RNK selection theory to all races in the world?
The R&K theory, and you guys will have to look it up, it takes about a half an hour to understand, but it's definitely true.
And here's the thing.
Evolution works on what kills you.
And in the far north, and these are the Chinese and the Europeans, what killed you was winter.
You had six months of ice and snow.
And if you didn't work your butt off, if you didn't have the genes to be a workaholic and forward thinking, always planning for the future, and also to limit your mating, so you don't want to have more than one wife and a whole bunch of children,
because during the winter, you're going to starve to death.
And women have to be very cautious.
You can't get pregnant if you don't have a man who's going to be devoted to you, because if you're pregnant, If you are suffering a baby during winter and you're alone, you can't possibly survive.
And so these traits of being a workaholic, planning ahead, hoarding, and being a little bit conservative on mating are northern adapted traits.
In the tropics, it's just the opposite.
What killed you is disease.
Six out of seven children died of diseases before they bred in the warm tropics.
So the strategy there is to mate with as many different people as possible, both the men and the women.
Therefore, at Oxford you're going to have a great variety, and some of them are going to be able to be resistant to that local disease.
And it doesn't do any good to...
Do a lot of work and store a lot of food because the humidity and the rats and insects are just going to eat it.
You can build a giant house, but the turrets are just going to bring it down.
And it's always warm.
There's always water.
There's always food to find.
Even little kids can find food in the tropics, insects, lizards, plants and whatnot.
So there's no need to have a family.
There's less need to have a family.
And to take care of those children.
In fact, if you do all those things that Western people do and Asians, if you invest in your family, they're all going to die anyhow of diseases.
So you're going to lose out.
It's the guy who goes out and mates.
And so he should put as much effort in possible as impressing women and getting as many mates as possible so that at least some of them are going to survive.
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