Comments by "Clogs" (@clogs4956) on "Some possible implications of the genetic differences between Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans" video.

  1. It’s more wonderfully complex than just genetics, though, because we should never underestimate the importance of climate, phenotype, and the transfer of memes on the history of human development. The last Ice Age ended around 10,000 years ago, at which point non-Neanderthal groups living in river valleys created early empires such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, Carthage, and China as a result of grain farming while northern climes remained too cold for this innovation until nearer 5,000 BC. The Bantu migration brought new ideas into sub-Saharan areas between 4,000 and 5,000 BC, bringing iron, grain farming, pottery and new language to existing peoples. Some very powerful empires arose which, due to the whimsical nature of our education system, few outside those areas study. Once trade routes inevitably opened - surely you don’t really think early Holocene people didn’t go for a walk or construct boats? - new stories and ideas began circulating along with goods. Everyone benefited or wars began, some of which ended empires, destroyed progress, and brought civilisations back to square one; this happened all over the world. End of mini-lecture. It’s barebones, just a quick note, really. Don’t get hung up on genetics because we’re all Homo sapiens sp. standing at that point where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
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