Changing climates as a cause is theoretically possible, but considering that there are other time-varying causes relating to gene-culture co-evolution and migrations, it is pretty difficult to test. However, looking just at latitude patterns with a control for year is a simple test. I already looked in the entire Reich dataset and found this was supported. The dataset is larger now, so a new examination should be done.
Would this Cold Winters theory not predict that the most intelligent people in the world should be Inuits, Lapps and other indigenous people of the Polar North? As far as I know, this is not true.
How do supporters of this theory account for this discrepancy?
Basically, early humans (around ~15k ya) developed a ritual that gave them self-awareness/consciousness (making you aware of your ego (the negotiator between your id (module for primal survival drives) and superego (module for propriety/staying in good standing with the rest of the tribe/group))).
The ritual involved taking snake venom as a psychedelic, combined with figs/apples as an anti-vemon. Once self-aware, your capacity for lying/deceit increases, so you get kicked out of the tribe (for stealing the alpha male's food/eating from his special tree) and have to go wander.
Changing climates as a cause is theoretically possible, but considering that there are other time-varying causes relating to gene-culture co-evolution and migrations, it is pretty difficult to test. However, looking just at latitude patterns with a control for year is a simple test. I already looked in the entire Reich dataset and found this was supported. The dataset is larger now, so a new examination should be done.
Would this Cold Winters theory not predict that the most intelligent people in the world should be Inuits, Lapps and other indigenous people of the Polar North? As far as I know, this is not true.
How do supporters of this theory account for this discrepancy?
speculative theory of the garden of eden story:
https://twitter.com/nightfire0/status/1676449682887958530
Basically, early humans (around ~15k ya) developed a ritual that gave them self-awareness/consciousness (making you aware of your ego (the negotiator between your id (module for primal survival drives) and superego (module for propriety/staying in good standing with the rest of the tribe/group))).
The ritual involved taking snake venom as a psychedelic, combined with figs/apples as an anti-vemon. Once self-aware, your capacity for lying/deceit increases, so you get kicked out of the tribe (for stealing the alpha male's food/eating from his special tree) and have to go wander.
May be of interest: https://heliconian.substack.com/