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  • 7:54 Why is he wearing a Pi symbol? XD

  • this is gay

  • and after looking back at my comment... I noticed all the wonderful grammatical errors... too lazy to fix them. deal with it. If you can't understand what I said then you dont need to even be here.

  • In all reality... The first people to prove that the earth is older than 6 thousand years (and that it is actually 4 billion years old) were geologists, not the creators of carbon dating. Back in the 1800's people (I know the story, just not the particular name) began to realize that every year, a new layer of sediment built up on top of the one from the previous year. (Just like a tree) By noticing the fact that there are MILLIONS of these layers built up, we learned that the earth us damn old

  • This is so incredible!

  • The world is only 6 thousand years old! If you don't believe this fact, than you will continue to experience difficulties in your research... PNG only got inhabited recently, not more than 3000 years ago! How do I know? I'm Fijian, I know when my ancestors came from Egypt... And when we came, the pacific was still empty!

  • @BALEnaVICO The world is 4 billion years old. This is a fact. PNG was populated a long time ago. the burden of proof is on you to prove otherwise, besides using a book written by iron age shepards as evidence.

  • @CodArk2 4 billion years ago? What else you going to tell me? Man came from sludge? You don't even have proof that anything existed 7 thousand years ago! Carbon dating is flawed a mile open mate! If PNG was populated a long time ago, than why do some PNG tribes still have record of their ancestors that came across the ocean not too long ago? Your theories are really leaking truth! Don't tell them who or where they come from!!! ASK THEM you Muppet!!

  • @BALEnaVICO Actaully man didn't come from sludge, man came from apes, apes from other mammals and so on. it makes about as much sense to me as saying a sky fairy came to earth, took dust and made humans. We do have proof things existed thousands, even millions of years ago, and claiming carbon dating is flawed is something you have to prove. I tend to believe archaeological evidence over stories, since stories can be changed and rewritten

  • @CodArk2 And NO! The burden of proof is not on me... Its on you to proof otherwise because your theory is built on refutable facts whilst mine is solid!

  • @BALEnaVICO What exactly is yours built on? The bible? The bible is not solid. it has holes and illogical gaps in it as well. The bible is like any other book written by men: imperfect. It has also been retranslated, re-edited, recompiled and used to enforce social mores or the culture and times. In science the burden of proof is on the one with the different theory. if the world were proven 6 thousand years old, it would be a huge breakthrough in science

  • so putting cellulose in our food might be a bad idea?

  • @whitevoice White people learned much of what they know from Native Americans, Ancient Egyptians and Israelites (blacks). Your opinion is based in denial, deception and racism. People like you make a bad name for all caucasians. Grow.

  • This crap is stupid so far, saying we had steel, there was raw Iron in North & south America, We made the gums, invented them, this is just mainstream trying to explain away our greatness over savage primitives!This bullshit video is just propaganda, they can't say the truth, no scientist can they would be called Nazi's! So they make excuses!No scientist will say anything to intelligence being the issue, they would be expelled and fired and black balled! Nothing they say would get on TV!

  • @Whitevoice14 You're sounding a little primitive yourself to be honest.

  • @MrFreddieBurgoyne u sound fail troll to be honest

  • @Whitevoice14 I am in no way trolling.. I'm simply alerting you to you're own ignorance.

  • @MrFreddieBurgoyne With no real comeback just saying nothing!

  • @Whitevoice14 This isn't about smart, one line comebacks it's about valid reasons.. which you seem to lack.

  • @MrFreddieBurgoyne If I am wrong show me don't come here screaming how I am but leave no valid comment!

  • @Whitevoice14 You dismissed other cultures as savage and primitive. That's an extremely sweeping statement to say that other parts of the world failed to develop because they were 'savage'.

  • @MrFreddieBurgoyne Pretty savage to still be in the stone age (some Indian & African tribes away from our influence) and to have resources under ur feet the same as Asians and Europeans and fail and never get nowhere till we helped and even now Africans still fail! Everywhere we went we was able to win and conquer because the people was ass naked with spears something we advanced past and we had better technology, and some Africans still eat each other, sounds savage to me!

  • @Whitevoice14 They certainly did not have the same resources as Eurasian people, that's the entire point. The geographies of Africa and Australasia are not suited to support the development of advanced cultures much beyond the hunter gatherer stage.. Eurasia however, did have these resources which enabled other aspects of culture to develop over time. You're basically saying other races are stupid, aren't you?

  • When he says pigs don't give you milk or leather or hide that is incorrect. 

  • 1:51 Nephila pilipes (golden orb-web spider).

  • The goats sound like they're saying "Jeffrey!"

  • @yerk3 lol

  • Doesn't psilocybin mushrooms grow in the dung of these ungulate animals? Maybe there's a missing factor here.

  • I wanna adopt those sheep :D

  • goats....

  • finally! no racist comments! =DDD... *shudder* spiders....... *shudder*

  • also fuck America!

    Canada has 1/3 of the Great Plains and if we ever get over 100 million people we gonna be the Second Coming of Uncle Sam cause same shit been going on NOrth of 49 for 400 years bitches !

  • @RimlandThesis yeah . canada has a shit tonne of resources .. just no ppl to get those :P

  • Diamond's got it right.

    Geography is the only constant... without it there is no food production.

    Read the geopolitcs by Sir Halford Mackinder or Geography of the Peace by Niclas Spykman...

    in the context of geopolitics.... grand strategy... civilization.... geography, what it allows to be produced is all that matters !

    New Guinea is a fucking island that did not produce the proper food... fucking luck!

  • @RimlandThesis Yeh, New Guinea got owned in that respect.

  • I love the π symbol on his t-shirt @7:55

  • this is not entirely true because in the caribbean..it has perfect climate for growing crops..however the europeans used it for THEIR gain and gained millions from it.Why not did the natives in the caribbean and south central america become "rich"?? The europeans got their wealth from these countries.

  • @shottaboss24 It's not only farming. The fertile crescent had the most plants and animals for domestication. After the land became arid, humans migrated from the region and bringing those resources elsewhere across Eurasia. The combination of domesticated plants and animals gave the Europeans an advantage at development. The people of Papua New Guinea lack either, hence their archaic farming practices and poor health.

  • @shottaboss24 Please read the book before you conclude something so ignorant.

  • @shottaboss24

    Go read the book dumbass.

  • @shottaboss24 I know you posted this a while ago but.....i don't care.

    I find it a shame that you have top comment because your claim is actually a wide misconception.Many of those tropical areas have inadequate soil for growing crops; the soil is very thin.Thus many of the inhabitants were hunter gatherers because they couldn't be farmers. A chain-reaction that begins with the proper environment, not genetic "intelligence"

  • those lucky bastards!!

  • whered he get a gold "Pi" chain

  • Serial crops?

  • @awesome220 cereal

  • @theropodia Fruit Loops?

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  • Why not learn to fish, they are on an island surrounded by water... plenty of protein out there.

  • @cobrachoppergirl go try to fish there

  • Africans had bufallo, wildebeest and other large game, and some of them had agriculture, apparently, so why then didn't they develope in the same way as the middle easterners?

  • @gunninlinguist

    they are domesticated there too aggressive.

  • @lumpwump

    Large animals are generally agressive until domesticated-cyclical argument.

  • @gunninlinguist he gets into more detail in the book

  • @gunninlinguist Because of the the difference in the weather in the middle east. Africa is a very hot place where many farm land and animals that are good for humans just simply cant survive.

  • @milleroh

    In the Sahara, but not on the coastlines, or the South, which, as Diamond says later, is similar ro European climate.

  • Ooloosoon, go back to school or go out in the woods with a banjo-dumb ass

  • Ooloosoon=KKK

  • "Geographic luck," all you nationalistic and racist twits!

  • Jared Diamond is great. Geographic luck explains everything I've every wondered about european dominance.

  • White racism has permanently been smashed and debunked thanks to Diamond. Good job Jared!

  • We should domesticate those giant spiders.

  • @overOOview animals like large spiders can't be domesticated because they are A)dangerous B) they don't follow a social structure and C) They are difficult to breed.

    But that would be epic

  • @Fliping8 it was a joke

  • @nbonko49 i know i just fail....at life lol

  • @overOOview We kinda do. They are called Lobsters :). 

  • @yellowman88 Lobsters are crustaceans bro, it is scorpions which are arachnids

  • @Abu7929 but they all come from the phylum Arthropods.  Crustaceans and Arachnids have very similar biology. The structure of the exoskeleton, organs.. etc

  • @overOOview ewww

  • @overOOview Not a bad idea, lots of protein, tastes like lobster, the only difficulty is selling others on the idea.

  • @overOOview I would rather pull off all my fingernails than eat spiders for the rest of my life..... !

  • Whoops, it looks like the Papuas actually DID have a plant suitable for use as a staple crop.

    I guess it would be too much work planting a tuber like taro...except that potatoes (imported from the New World) were a staple crop in northern Europe.

    Whoops!

  • @SD78

    ...and they had the pig as a domesticated species for over a thousand years!

  • @SD78 Potatoes were unknown in Europe before 1500 - the advantage had already been made...

  • @hrothgleas

    Bizzarely enough, the Romans actually used taro as a staple crop.

  • Good Video Thanks For Posting it Ive Been Looking For It Everywhere

  • Racial Differences in IQ Genes found

    The Wall Street Journal

    By ANTONIO REGALADO

    Bruce Lahn professor of human genetics at the Unv. Chicago stood before a packed lecture hall and reported the results of new DNA analysis He had found signs of evolution in the brains of some people, but not of others

    He flashed maps showing changes (in brain size/ IQ ) had taken hold in Europe but weren't common in Black/Brown Populations

  • GIANT FUCKIN SPIDERS!

  • Go UMD! Go TERPS!

  • tiktak, your replies really are tick tak with no substance, this man is trying to answer a challenging question. its not just farming that seprated people but climate, natural predators and many other selective pressures. you have clearly missed point of this video.

  • Why 18th-century Britain? You said "some during the industrial revolution". White slaves shipped to Africa or Arab countres were a tiny number compared to Europe's population: most slaves there came from Africa. And those who went aren't ancestral to today's Europeans because few made it back. Ottoman slaves were more numerous, but again only a tiny proportion of Europe's people, perhaps 1% if that: the Balkans remained a peasant region. White slavery remains very much a minority phenomenon.

  • What the hell are you talking about "minority"

    You do realize there are more people in Africa than in Europe, and that only about a million were shipped as slaves to America....

  • In the past 2000 years Africa's only contained more people than Europe since the 1990s.

    12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries, most to the Caribbean and Brazil. Europe hadn't seen slavery on such a scale since the days of Rome, many of whose slaves came from outside the continent.

    Most Africans weren't slaves, most Europeans weren't and most Slavs weren't. But Africa and the Americas are where where the trade made its deepest impact.

  • 12 million is a huge lie, less than a million blacks were taken to America

    At the height of slavery in America, there were less than five million blacks in America

    You are so blatantly wrong, it would be almost funny if the topic wasn't so serious

    If by "deepest impact" you mean "the place where slavery was finally abolished", then you're right

  • @adrastea99

    The 13 colonies are not America. Only 4% of shipped African slaves went to what's now the US. Learn some elementary geography.

  • You are thinking of the Americas

    Americas =/= America

  • @adrastea99

    I said "12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries, most to the Caribbean and Brazil." Tell me what part of that you have difficulty understanding.

    You were the one who then sought to limit discussion to the US, thereby excluding 96% of transatlantic slave shipments.

    America is correctly the Americas. The United States is not America. That's why it's properly called the United States, not America.

  • @adrastea99

    No it does not! How could South America not be a part of America?

    And I wrote of "the Americas"., not "America", precisely to avoid any confusion. You're the one who started prattling on about "America" and equating it with one country.

    So here's what I wrote again: "12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas". Just how is that "a huge lie", as you claimed?

  • Facepalm

    Because America is a political region, not a geographic one

    And you wrote "America" without the "s", why do you think you can lie when any idiot can go back and check what you said?

    "America is correctly the Americas. The United States is not America. That's why it's properly called the United States, not America."

    Fucking retard

  • @adrastea99

    I never wrote "America" until you started making absurd claims about the word. None of my substantive points referred to "America". I'm not that interested in your idiot definition of a word only you seem interested in using.

    So for the THIRD time, why did you say that my statement that "12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas" was "a huge lie"? Come on, answer.

  • You're the one making the absurd claim that America = Americas and that USA is not America

    GTFO

  • You haven't been able to substantiate a single one of you assertions, and even now you can't. You've posted nothing but nonsense here, resorting to abuse every time your ignorance is exposed. Go and learn something instead of making ludicrous claims about issues you know nothing about,

  • Abuse? Like verbal abuse?

    Pussy

  • @davepx So it's okay then to make ludicrous claims about issues you do know something about? Uhh...

  • @adrastea99 America is a region. In that region, there is a group of states that are united as a single sovereign state. That is collectively known as the United States of America.

    Apparently by your logic, because 'South Africa' has the word 'Africa' in it, I can exclude the 'South' and just call the country 'Africa'.

    Calling the USA just America is the single most annoying piece of laziness and ignorance that currently exists in the English language. The U and S are there for a reason.

  • @davepx do not argue with stupid people, because they can not understand- because they are stupid! :) people that could understood and knew that or knew how to learn it did and they wouldnt argue with something the whole world knows! I would like to add something to your words: 12M africans were shipped to the Americas, after 10 times more native americans died from torture, labor and starvation!

  • @alendarzhana Torture, labor, genocide, and starvation certainly happened, and were awful. But accidental spread of disease killed far more.

  • No it is not. Never mind "check it out anywhere", name a reputable source that equates the two terms. There's a difference between colloquial and proper usage.

  • Pigs do give you leather, it's just not very usual.

  • sorry uragan its 'moops'

  • thnx for uploading these video's bro (Y) i can't use p2p downloads in my college flat because our internet will crash. so i couldnt get them another way! got exams on this book in a few days, this is a big help, thnx alot bro!

  • I like the dude with the pi shirt lol

  • Kudos guy with π (pi) shirt 7:55 - 8:00

  • american food is not very good, hamburguers and pizzas. i prefer simple life.

  • He sounds like Raymond

  • i have a question:

    what advantages are gained by being the first to domesticate animals?

  • Animals can do hard labour. This allows humans more time to develop technology and science. Animals are also a concentrated form of protein that would give people more strength and energy then plants alone, allowing them to conquer other peoples.

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  • lol animals cant pick cotten

  • I'm done with this thread, line of commentary or whatever. I'd appreciate it if all of you stopped responding to y comments. thank you.

  • What good luck for us that your Caucasian super race family still lives in the trailer park and is looking for Elvis and fighting over the last sighting of a UFO when Aunt Bobby-Jo got drunk. She was sleeping with her first cousin in the fields when all that happened.

  • i love the inaccuracies.

    oops we were wrong ... again!!

  • Oh and pigs DO give leather. And the Native Americans sure didn't domesticate any animals. This documentary seems very very flawed.

  • If you people know so goddamn much why don't you make a documentary to stop the lies?

  • Domestication and Native Americans is fact. Dogs were domesticated by nearly all human races at one point in time. Horses were later tamed by the natives after introduction by the Spaniards.

  • I'm sorry I didn't mean to say that. I think I meant to say 'did' and not 'didn't' because it is even obvious from the video that they domesticated llamas. Sorry for that. I mispoke.

  • And turkeys and llamas and beans and corn (which is much harder to domesticate than wheat). They just didn't have the variety that the Eurasians did to use.

  • people never just ate plants. People always ate animals. I don't think this guy really studied Papua NeW Gunean and other people really well, atleast not their past. People all over the world alwasy sought out fatty and protein packed foods and secured them for themselves. I don't think this documentary is accurate but that is typical of National Geographic. They didn't even include Egypt as part of Africa. National Geographic is stupid in my opinion.

  • Actually, you are stupid.

  • People with Black skin are closer to the original and ancestral human, making their bodies more studier, which is why they excel in sports, because they are built like the original humans. However, as the skin gets lighter you see the decrease in physical activities, making the mind the most worked muscle. So in reality, People with Black skin have less health problems, and live longer, while White people tend to be more intelligent but don't live as long or live as long healthily.

  • This is absolute nonsense. africans show more diversity in any traits that any other people outside Africa. And they are nothing like a original humans since Africas climate varies widely from region to region and it is the environment that determines evolution.

  • ....your CORRECT in much of what you say but there are a few errors

    Google "Doctor JP Rushton Race and evolution harbornet" ....Doctor Rushtons work goes into a broad range of racial differences

    You should also Google the new book "The Evolution of Racial Differences in Intelligence" writting by the world TOP EXPERT Doctor Richard Lynn

    Both are MUST READS (and you can read them for FREE online...just google them

  • But you're looking at only a small part of the African race. African-Americans. The reason they excel at sports over other Americans and even over other Africans from Africa is because when slaves were brought over, the conditions were so harsh only the physically strongest survived and passed these traits onto their offspring.

    Since slaves were only kept for their ability to perform manual labour. Physically weaker, but perhaps smarter, ones were left to starve or die.

  • Most Africans living in the USA are immigrants from the last 50 years from Africa.

  • 50 years? they were there even in the 1800s dude, thats like a couple of years after the whites arrive in america... they were too lazy to do choirs so they enslave the africans.. the late comers are the irish and the asians

  • Typical conservative myth rationalizing:

    "Blacks practiced slavery, therefore, white enslavement of blacks is excusable."

    Just for the hell of it, google Ronald Reagan was a senile old dumb fuck who murdered thousands of Central Americans ... but they were communists, therefore, it's excusable ... AND EVEN DESIREABLE!

    When will you worthless animals leave this Earth? THAT is the most important question of our time.

  • very emotional... i doubt you would be able to come up with a non biased answer to such question. you are simply driven by emotion and need of love , be it even from blacks or mexicans you do not care. the truth has no place in your world. "whites practiced slavery, therefore, black enslavement of whites is excusable." what do you have to say to that?

  • I'm driven by a "need of love"?

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    Here's what I'm driven by: A thorough and bottomless hatred of all things conservative and Republican. You and your kind are are scum without a shred of socially redeemable qualities.

    Discuss the Reagan analogy if you dare, scum.

  • It's not excusable but it doesn't mean that "All whites are slavers and they all need to pay reparations for black slavery in America"

    I'm a white man from eastern Europe, when I moved to America I was assaulted by 4 black teenagers who were angry at ME over black slavery in America

    My ancestors and my people (slavs) never enslaved any blacks, but that didn't stop blacks from being racist towards me

    Fuck your shit

  • My ancestors didn't enslave any blacks either; they entered America about 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. I feel no guilt over slavery, me or my ancestors having never participated in it. So what's your point?

    So these black kids attacked you. Did they verbally tell you why ? I doubt it.

    And if blacks had been paid for the 400 years of free labor they gave to white Americans, do you think the black community would be so crime ridden today?

    Fuck your shit as well.

  • >Did they verbally tell you why ?

    They did

    >if blacks had been paid for the 400 years of free labor

    Find me a black person in america who worked 400 years for free and I will gladly pay that ONE PERSON all the money he or she is due

    Anything else and you are talking about racism, equally ridiculous to asking Muslim people to pay the Spanish, East Europeans, Greeks etc people for 700 years of occupation and slavery

    Don't be a silly billy

  • Find you a black person who has worked 400 years for free?

    Given the average human life-span, that's about as dumb a fucking question as I've ever read. A question the answer to which you already know.

    Now, try this question:

    Find me a white person whose ancestors were never paid a dime for their labor who truly believes that it was a good thing his ancestors were penniless servants without rights.

    Now you're talking sense.

    The Greeks, etc are someone else's problem. I'm American.

  • You're a retard for answering a rhetorical question meant to prove a point

    America was made of Jewish, Spanish, French, Russian and Dutch settlers escaping persecution and slavery

  • adrastea99, your knowledge of American History is seriously deficient. You espouse a storybook interpretation of US history that is as simplistic as it is inaccurate. Economics was overall a far more important aspect of immigration then, as it is now. People came here for a better standard of living more often than not.

    And it's strange that people who allegedly came here to escape slavery and persecution perpetrated the same against others, isn't it?

  • "rhetorical question meant to prove a point"

    Meant to, but proved absolutely nothing.

    "America was made of ..... "

    Which in the list of ethnic groups you'e listed were slaves? And where exactly did this bondage occur?

    As for persecution, yes of course. And this means what in the context of ensalved Africans? Nothing, that's what it means. The fact that some group was persecuted in another land & immigrated to America, has no bearing on the American institution of slavery.

  • Jewish = Slave camps during WWII, huge exodus to America

    Spanish, French, Russian, Dutch, English and so on = Slavery during feudalism and before, first pilgrims and settlers came on account of serfdom and slavery in feudal Europe, second bout of settlers came during economic exploitation during the industrial age

  • You're conflating time periods & reasons for immigration incompatible with a discussion of enslaved Africans brought to America. The PIlgrims were a religious sect. They weren't anyone's "serfs."

    Yes, some African slaves were sold by other Africans. And what is the economic advantage for these slave-holding Africans that is comparable to the economic advantage European slave holders enjoyed in the Americas? Where are/were the fabulously wealthy African slave-holders to which you allude?

  • There are hundreds of millionaires and billionaires in Africa, people who get rich off of resources like diamonds and oil but leave the rest of Africas population in poverty

    Slavery still happens in Africa according to the Anti Slavery society (a British organization lol)

    What the hell kind of question is that?

  • Oh really? Considering that black people who were brought over as slaves were already slaves in Africa, your argument is moot. I don't see anyone seeking reparations from present day Africans which captured and sold other blacks into slavery

    America didn't institute slavery, it existed for many millenia beforehand on every continent

    In fact, you could say that America had a huge part in stopping slavery

  • Well ... who made the claim that slavery was started by Americans?

    "America had a huge part in stopping slavery"

    So you are using this statement as a justifiucation FOR slavery?

    What kind of a self-serving pissant are you?

  • You did

    "American institution of slavery"

    To institute means to establish

    And no I'm not justifying slavery, I'm saying that America is the opposite of that you claim

    Instead of a creator, it is an ender of slavery

  • @adrastea99

    Americans termed it an institurion. The word does not denote origin. The US abolished slavery in 1863, 80 years after independence and more than 200 years after its arrival in the then North American colonies. .

  • Every white ancestor underwent slavery, some during the industrial revolution, some during the moor conquests, the ottoman incursion, some through the middle ages etc

    And all those years of slavery forged the white people and gave us the ability to do what we did

    So am I thankful for the pain of my ancestors, no. But I am thankful for their strength

  • Really? How many white slaves were held in 18th-century Britain? Or by the Moors or Ottomans, both of whom ruled large Christan peasant populations? Slavery had probably never involved more than a tenth of Europe's population, and that had been well over a millennium earlier.

  • Every white ancestor at some point in history

    Why specifically 18th century? Why Britain?

    Moors and Ottomans shipped slaves back to Africa and Middle east

    Ottomans had a policy where the first born child of conquered races would become cannon fodder in their armies

    The word slave comes from the largest ethnic group in Europe, "Slavs"

    >that had been well over a millennium earlier

    I get it, water under the bridge

    Ok, don't complain about black slavery anymore, it's all water under the bridge

  • The word slave indeed comes from "Slav". But that doesn't mean Slavs were slaves, it means the Slav lands (as the nearest source of non-Christians before their conversion) were the principal source of slaves in western Europe at a time when slavery was already well past its peak (enslaving fellow Christians was frowned upon). Slaves in the west were still termed servi at that time, sclavus being a later form.

  • What are you saying?

    First you say Slavs weren't slaves, then you say their lands were primary source of slaves

    Make up your damn mind or don't post altogether

    Also, your chronology is confused

  • The overwhelming majority weren't slaves.The word comes from the minority who were, Some Slavs were enslaved and sent to the west and south, but most weren't.

    Learn some history or don't post altogether.

  • Some black people were enslaved, not all, so it doesn't matter

  • "Every white ancestor underwent slavery"

    Huh? What fantasy books are YOU reading?

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

  • They did it for the money, not their racist bias. All about business and foreign policy interests.

  • I thought it was because the slave masters selectively bred the negros?

  • Those who doubt and think of the possible supremacy of races, should look at the documentary "Tocar y Luchar" where 250 thousand the poorest children in Venezuela form symphonic orchestras and play Mahler in a way that brings tears to Placido Domingo's eyes. These are children from the slumps. The Director of the Berlin Orchestra said "I just wish Mahler was here to see this". It is Venezuelans people! It is just a matter of opportunity!

  • isnt there a book called guns, germs and steel?

  • yeah this series is based on it

  • It really is ODD to watch a "scientist" like Mr. Diamond produce a Movie that OPENLY TALKS ABOUT THE GENETIC SELECTION THAT PRODUCED BETTER PLANTS

    then watch the dude TOTALLY IGNORE the EXACT SAME GENETIC SELECTION on this planet that produced LARGE RACIAL DIFFERENCES

    Its crazy

    If Humans can Select Genes out of a populations of Wheat/Rice..to produce totally different types of Grains

    Then why cant Iceages and Yearly Winters select for Genes and produce REAL RACIAL DIFFERENCES?

  • Bruce tested his own brain... and it turned out he did not have that gene. But still he was smart. Became a professor, discover stuff etc.

    Dude stop being so narrow... it's only crazy to ignore genes the only factor is genes. Turns out there are so many other factors outside that you conveniently ignore and put your "genes" in caps haha

    Genes may play a role, the role is shared with numerous other factors. Plants weather terrain altitude latitude seasons diseases animals natural disasters ....

  • racial differences were there since the begining of time, all natural selection really did, was to select the strongest members of each given race to thrive and move forward. see how easy it can be to pass on ones opinion without using caps?...amazing isnt it...

  • Big difference, plants regenerate once or more times a year!!! then even with your poisoned reasoning it would take 1000s of generations to achieve superiority of one 'breed' over another, humans move and often exchange DNA that racial differences in plants are hardly like animal divergence of species. It would even be ridiculous to argue the finches of Galapagos (which produce new generations often) display detectible differences in intelligence.

  • becuase the real racial diffrences that produce better inteligence dosent exist.

    and we dont live in hittlers eroupe were only the fittest can reproduce.

  • Natural genius?

    Jun 2nd 2005

    From The Economist print edition

    Ashkenazim generally do well in IQ tests, scoring 12-15 points above the mean value of 100,

    ...

    He argues that the professions occupied by European Jews were all ones that put a premium on intelligence. Of course, it is hard to prove that this intelligence premium existed in the Middle Ages, but it is certainly true that it exists in the modern versions of those occupations.