Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

Whether you break from the rest of the system of categorization, and use the term species and subspecies, races and subraces, or generations is irrelevant. The order of human evolution continued MUCH MORE rapidly over the past 60k years. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1384623031625072642

Yes well I’ve beat the daylights out of the ‘race’ question, which is just ‘generations of H Sapiens’ due to temperature, isolation, speciation by neoteny, producing domestication syndrome: pedomorphism, lower aggression, slower maturity, bigger cranium, higher IQ, longer life.

Rice cultivation began in china as early as 10K years agao, although farming between 3 to 4k years ago. So I suspect it is higher neotenic evolution, lower verbal bias, the fact that rice is a brutal 360 day a year crop, requiring a certain temperament to survive, …