It is disturbing to realize that all humans alive today are the direct descendants of the most successful committers of murder, enslavement, rape and genocide, and all historical injustice is just the documented tail end of success and failure in primate evolutionary competition.
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"Civilization" has only been around perhaps 10k years, which is nothing evolutionarily speaking. I might be skeptical but I don't think we've changed that much. Humans have been in their current state roughly 125k-250k years. Minor changes I admit.
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You can breed wild foxes into dogs in just a handful of generations. Ten thousand years is a very long time. It is unlikely that the traits that were most useful to neolithic nomads were the same that maximize reproductive success for medieval peasants or oriental aristocrats.
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