That Czechs again represent a European extreme is no surprise, as it stands to reason that a brachycephalic skull with a lower surface area can pass through a narrower set of hips.
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The wide ranging conquests of the Vikings and the Arabs were accompanied by surprisingly impressive literary achievements: The Eddas, the Icelandic Sagas, the Koran. The frontal lobe is a Swiss Army Knife, useful for many tasks, but mostly stabbing things.
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Nerds may not be perfect in many ways, but one thing you can never take away from them is that when they get together in groups they’re extraordinarily good at killing people.
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NW Europeans are not smarter than other Eurasians. It wasn’t an Englishman that invented paper, gunpowder, or the water mill. There were early signs of a military superiority in the far ranging conquests of the Vikings and the French in the Holy Land, but nothing overwhelming.
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But from the moment Gutenberg invented the printing press the rest of the world was doomed. The easy spread of literacy allowed the mental advantages of autistic milk drinkers to become apparent in the formation of scientific societies.
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Jews produce more high quality science per capita than any other group in the world, but only NW Europeans could have built up the nerdy critical mass to invent science itself and once they did their superior rote memories gave them an insurmountable advantage.
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That was my long Twitter thread. Got at least two more to go, one on West African creativity and the other an attempt to explain the autism epidemic.
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