(+5) Genetic view: Generally speaking, civilizations got jump started in ancient times when various groups ranging from Nordic and Celtic peoples in northwestern Asia to Mongols, Turks and Hun in northeastern Asia migrated southward and westward to easier climates and found that they had a surplus of vigor and intelligence. This became invested in that sum of material and cultural improvements which we call civilization. In cold areas, humans generally lived under highly dispersed conditions as hunters and gatherers or in small villages, therefore Darwinian selective factors fell more heavily on individual shoulders. Individuals who could not think technologically to prepare winter survival gear or delay gratification to lay up provisions during the warm seasons tended to die off at higher rates. These sculpturing factors applied to whoever happened to live in frost zones, to include mongoloids as well as caucasoids. Therefore, greater technological adaptivity is not specific only to whites. However, between caucasoids and mongoloids there are likely temperamental differences involving chivalrous and individualistic behavior related to such factors as the amount of time spent in frost zones, mutations, and other factors. In contrast to all of this, tropical zones tend to select more for "reactive" behaviors. Here, hunting and gathering opportunities are more consistent throughout the year. Impulsive behavior has higher survival value relative to such traits as a capacity for delayed gratification and technological thinking. Racial differences run much deeper than skin color between the "peoples of the north" and jungle people. For example, whites have about twice the cerebral folding density in their brains, and a much higher ratio of frontal lobe to anterior lobe than blacks. These physiological differences correlate with greater abstract intelligence in neural anatomy. Sometimes Darwinian selection themes have had more of a man vs. man theme than a man vs. nature theme. This alternative theme is particularly pronounced among Jews, who lived for over 1,700 years as a dynamic minority in Babylonia as well as in small racially exclusive colonies in other urban areas of the ancient world. Their modus operandi focused on various forms of man vs. man trade and brokerage in urban environments that involved manipulating confidence as opposed to physical labor involved in creating things of real value from natural resources. Since urban environments often permit the unfit and crooked to out-reproduce the fit and noble, their sustained contribution to the advancement of civilization has been highly cyclical at best. While it is true that other racial groups have made impressive achievements besides whites, even here there are many interesting wrinkles when we look at details. For example, many Visigoths (a Nordic people) settled in North Africa in the Middle Ages and produced descendants who later became blue-eyed Muslim scholars. "Iran" comes from the word "Aryan" even though Iranians today are Muslim like most Arabs. The Turks who ran the longstanding Ottoman Empire are not Arabs either, although they are also mostly Muslim. The earliest founders of Sumer and Egypt were caucasian. Ancient caucasoid remains have been found in eastern China, far eastern Asia, Egypt, and in North and South America. Often it was necessary for conquering groups from the north to segregate themselves to avoid being absorbed by temperate zone masses.

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