Curt Doolittle

Theme: Civilization

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    (FB 1548138353 Timestamp) BOOMERS MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION IN HISTORY, BUT GEN X WERE THE WORST PARENTS. https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/generation-z-on-religion/

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    (FB 1548195658 Timestamp) THE TRADE-OFF TRIANGLE OF CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES “Truth, Vs Face, Vs Gain.” …………………..(Europe)…………………. ……………………TRUTH…………………… ……………………/…………………………… …………………../……….. …………………. …………….FACE —— GAIN…………… (asia-west asia)………(afro-south west asia.)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548275914 Timestamp) —“Lake Toba is the site of a massive supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago,[2][3][4] representing a climate-changing event. It is the largest-known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present.[6] It has been accepted that the eruption of Toba led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 to 5 °C (5.4 to 9.0 °F), and up to 15 °C (27 °F) in higher latitudes. Additional studies in Lake Malawi in East Africa show significant amounts of ash being deposited from the Toba eruptions, even at that great distance, but little indication of a significant climatic effect in East Africa.[7]” Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba) is a large natural lake in Indonesia occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) long, 30 kilometres (19 mi) wide, and up to 505 metres (1,657 ft) deep. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with a surface elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft), the lake stretches from 2.88°N 98.52°E to 2.35°N 99.1°E. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.[1] Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more accurate identification of 74,000 years ago as the date.[5] “—

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    (FB 1548268885 Timestamp) via Brandon Hayes and Rosenborg Predmetsky This is super interesting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842692/ “Culture–gene coevolutionary theory posits that cultural values have evolved, are adaptive and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates. Here, we examined the association between cultural values of individualism–collectivism and allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) as well as the role this culture–gene association may play in explaining global variability in prevalence of pathogens and affective disorders. We found evidence that collectivistic cultures were significantly more likely to comprise individuals carrying the short (S) allele of the 5-HTTLPR across 29 nations. Results further show that historical pathogen prevalence predicts cultural variability in individualism–collectivism owing to genetic selection of the S allele. Additionally, cultural values and frequency of S allele carriers negatively predict global prevalence of anxiety and mood disorder. Finally, mediation analyses further indicate that increased frequency of S allele carriers predicted decreased anxiety and mood disorder prevalence owing to increased collectivistic cultural values. Taken together, our findings suggest culture–gene coevolution between allelic frequency of 5-HTTLPR and cultural values of individualism–collectivism and support the notion that cultural values buffer genetically susceptible populations from increased prevalence of affective disorders. Implications of the current findings for understanding culture–gene coevolution of human brain and behaviour as well as how this coevolutionary process may contribute to global variation in pathogen prevalence and epidemiology of affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are discussed.”

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548267878 Timestamp) —“My understanding is that you are knowledgable on race. Would you happen to know the race of Kurds and Arabs?”— Kurds are west asians, and part of the Iranic (caucasian) branch. Kurdish people are closely related to the Azeri, Armenian, Georgian peoples, descending from some common ancestors in the northern Near East region. ie: west eurasians. Southern italians < greeks < anatolians > caucasians > iranians > Turks. Arabs are afro asiatics from the ethiopian/red sea/yemen area that migrated north and consist of north and south branches. East africans > South arabs > north arabs > palestinians south africans < East Africans > West africans Because of the degree of conquest in the middle east the genomes of west eurasians in the greater mesopotamia and levant area appear to have a lot of overlap – particularly in the Kurds who are sort of ‘in the middle’ of it all. It’s helpful to think of jews, palestinians, and kurds as peoples who were unable to survive as nation states throughout the persian, greek, roman, and arab conquests. Europeans for example are the european branch of the west asians but it appears that they are a result of some conflict between the north and south urheimat peoples. Atlantics > germanics > nordics, > slavics > finns are europeans (glacial survivors of the european plain.)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548195658 Timestamp) THE TRADE-OFF TRIANGLE OF CIVILIZATIONAL DIFFERENCES “Truth, Vs Face, Vs Gain.” …………………..(Europe)…………………. ……………………TRUTH…………………… ……………………/…………………………… …………………../……….. …………………. …………….FACE —— GAIN…………… (asia-west asia)………(afro-south west asia.)

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548268885 Timestamp) via Brandon Hayes and Rosenborg Predmetsky This is super interesting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842692/ “Culture–gene coevolutionary theory posits that cultural values have evolved, are adaptive and influence the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates. Here, we examined the association between cultural values of individualism–collectivism and allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) as well as the role this culture–gene association may play in explaining global variability in prevalence of pathogens and affective disorders. We found evidence that collectivistic cultures were significantly more likely to comprise individuals carrying the short (S) allele of the 5-HTTLPR across 29 nations. Results further show that historical pathogen prevalence predicts cultural variability in individualism–collectivism owing to genetic selection of the S allele. Additionally, cultural values and frequency of S allele carriers negatively predict global prevalence of anxiety and mood disorder. Finally, mediation analyses further indicate that increased frequency of S allele carriers predicted decreased anxiety and mood disorder prevalence owing to increased collectivistic cultural values. Taken together, our findings suggest culture–gene coevolution between allelic frequency of 5-HTTLPR and cultural values of individualism–collectivism and support the notion that cultural values buffer genetically susceptible populations from increased prevalence of affective disorders. Implications of the current findings for understanding culture–gene coevolution of human brain and behaviour as well as how this coevolutionary process may contribute to global variation in pathogen prevalence and epidemiology of affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are discussed.”

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    (FB 1548267878 Timestamp) —“My understanding is that you are knowledgable on race. Would you happen to know the race of Kurds and Arabs?”— Kurds are west asians, and part of the Iranic (caucasian) branch. Kurdish people are closely related to the Azeri, Armenian, Georgian peoples, descending from some common ancestors in the northern Near East region. ie: west eurasians. Southern italians < greeks < anatolians > caucasians > iranians > Turks. Arabs are afro asiatics from the ethiopian/red sea/yemen area that migrated north and consist of north and south branches. East africans > South arabs > north arabs > palestinians south africans < East Africans > West africans Because of the degree of conquest in the middle east the genomes of west eurasians in the greater mesopotamia and levant area appear to have a lot of overlap – particularly in the Kurds who are sort of ‘in the middle’ of it all. It’s helpful to think of jews, palestinians, and kurds as peoples who were unable to survive as nation states throughout the persian, greek, roman, and arab conquests. Europeans for example are the european branch of the west asians but it appears that they are a result of some conflict between the north and south urheimat peoples. Atlantics > germanics > nordics, > slavics > finns are europeans (glacial survivors of the european plain.)

  • (FB 1548276077 Timestamp) The mediterranean, the persian gulf, the ob river vall

    (FB 1548276077 Timestamp) The mediterranean, the persian gulf, the ob river valley, the black sea the caspian sea. There wasn’t just ONE great flood.

  • (FB 1548276077 Timestamp) The mediterranean, the persian gulf, the ob river vall

    (FB 1548276077 Timestamp) The mediterranean, the persian gulf, the ob river valley, the black sea the caspian sea. There wasn’t just ONE great flood.