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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Apr 5 00:05:23 2011, in response to Re: Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by JayMan on Mon Apr 4 23:52:04 2011. First of all North Africans are not black. They are brown, genetically distinct from black Africans to the south, and related to, but still distinct from white Europeans to the north. Brown people (North Africans/Middle Easterners/South Asians) did indeed develop agriculture first, and no doubt this created an evolutionary pressure that probably led to the origin of civilization. Once the Greeks and Romans spread civilization into Europe, it didn't take long to catch on there. By contrast very few sub-Saharan African societies developed civilization, and while there were a few singular successes and inventions (such as the Haya from Tanzania who invented steel, the West African empires there were at the time the strongest states in the West, and Ethiopia), the record of accomplishments is a lot shorter. Several forces, including cognitive and temperamental factors probably explain this, but the result today is clear.IINM, there were also predominately black West African cities that were civilized (as you mentioned) in their own way before Europeans set foot on Africa, like Timbuktu. Some adaptation no doubt has occurred. But evolution doesn't proceed that quickly, and further, there is no selective pressure favoring increased intelligence/a more pro-civilized temperament today. It's not like the successful blacks reproduce more than the less successful ones. If anything it may be the other way around. So it's an education issue at heart. |
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