[allmendream]

I think the selective pressure was more likely geographic than intellectual. It probably reduced our genetic diversity as a species such that many of the genes that could have gone into a ‘super genius’ were lost, but overall the average intelligence of the population was most likely unchanged, just less diverse.

Evolution doesn’t denote advancement just change in response to selective pressure, and the change might be something that is as much a mixed blessing as sickle cell anemia.

[Frobenius]

If you run the numbers, something interesting pops up...

2,000 people 70,000 years ago to yield a present population of 6.6-billion says that the human population has grown orver that period at the rate of 0.02% per year... (not 2% but 0.02%)

Amazing when you think about it - I suppose all that pestilence, wild animals, wars, and all the rest...

Who was it that said that Somalia is the norm for humanity around the world outside of the Western Civilized aberation?