Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Agricultural Revolution did have a huge evolutionary impact on humans. Natural selection in agricultural societies favored those better able to get along with the people around them and specialization of tasks. Whereas hunter gatherers were small bands and required generalists

I admit many things make more sense in this paradigm. How will we ever have this conversation in a meaningful way, I don’t know. When I think about how physically different I am compared to say Shaquille O’Neal, I imagine other differences are exponentially divergent

It is just the other way round: good institutions allowed for some to be more productive. Among those institutions were: nuclear family, private property, value of human life, common law, religious tabu, good warfare, openness to trade with foreigners.

@StephanMolyneux doesn't know about climate and can't be bothered to look it up

This is why indians are so good at cricket because they had no ice age

This analysis is non-historical. The early European farmers who spread throughout northern Europe were replaced in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age by pastoralists from the Steppe. These pastoralists. modern northern Europeans, didn't take up farming until later.