TEOTWAWKI wrote:When we were hunter gatherers Bob we had little time for intellectual growth. It wasn't until farming gave us abundant food and freed many to pursue other work that what we call modern life came into existence. We are still only 3 days at any one time from being starving beggars ourselves. All that stands between us and the Africans is a food delivery system.
That's a very thoughtful answer. And gives me something to think about that I had missed.
But why did some civilizations discover that farming technology while others are still "hunters/gatherers" in 2013?
I perfectly realize and fully accept that there are individuals in every race of human beings whose very existence destroys any notion that any given individual of any given race is going to automatically be less intelligent than any given individual of any other race.
But what I'm not as certain of is that the median intelligence of a given race is always going to equal the median intelligence of another race.