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It doesn't look as if being a modern human, in the sense of having ancestors who were anatomically modern and who originated in Africa, was enough, by itself, to trigger this change. We don't see this storm of innovation in Australia.

— Henry Harpending

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Australian Aborigines never domesticated plants at all.

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Sometimes racial similarities are only skin-deep.

There are important, well-understood examples of human biological inequality: Some populations can (on average) deal far more effectively with certain situations than others.

It’s time for researchers in the human sciences to shrug off the chains of dogmas like evolutionary stasis and “psychic unity.” There’s no time to lose—and there’s a world to win.

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