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The Agricultural Revolution Has Been A Disaster for the Human Race.
About this Episode
Whig History is one hell of a drug. In our cocoon of electronic toys and United Nations statistics about how great the world is, it might sound absurd to say that by many of the most crucial metrics, human life has become measurably worse since man adopted agriculture. Our bodies, our metabolism, our social structure, our psychology and our deepest desires are built for paleolithic life, but now that that life has been nearly entirely abandoned, we find ourselves thoroughly unfit for the marvelous technology that defines our new environment, and environment which is changing far faster than we can keep up.
Even worse, the comfort of modernity is putting us in potentially disastrous evolutionary circumstances. We are accumulating harmful mutations, while at the same time, becoming more mentally cloistered. In this episode we look at Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending's The 10,000 Year Explosion, Spencer Wells' Pandora's Seed and Michael Woodley's work on mutational load.
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- 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending)
- Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilizaion (Spencer Wells)
- Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification (Peter Frost and Henry Harpending)
- Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence (Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending)
- How fragile is our intellect? Estimating losses in general intelligence due to both selection and mutation accumulation (Michael A. Woodley of Menie)
- Distance from sub-Saharan Africa predicts mutational load in diverse human genetics (Henn et al.)
- What Caused over a Century of Decline in General Intelligence? Testing Predictions from the Genetic Selection and Neurotoxin Hypotheses (Woodley of Menie et al.)
Timecodes
00:00 The Agricultural Revolution Has Been a Disaster for the Human Race 01:48 Spencer Well's Pandora's Seed 04:32 Cochran and Harpending's 10,000 Year Explosion 06:31 Creating a world we don't match 08:13 Roadmap 09:05 Are we living too long for our bodies? 13:04 Causes of death 16:44 Meme diets 18:06 Where do manlets come from? 20:53 Homogenization of the agricultural diet 22:56 Different racial genetic accomodations to agricultural diets 27:13 Luke rationalizes not brushing his teeth. 29:24 The Red-Pill on Mouth-Breathing 32:02 Get me a Birthday Present! (https://donate.notrelated.xyz) 32:52 Why this isn't a book club 36:00 Self-Domestication 39:58 We're all Soyboys. 42:33 Genetic Pacification in Europe 44:32 Why Chinese don't have ADHD 47:09 Mad Geniuses 49:50 Hawks, Doves and violence as social contribution 53:35 Mutational Load, Founding Effects and Congenital Diseases (also Jews) 58:48 Eugenics isn't enough 1:00:08 Intelligence, g, IQ and the Flynn Effect 1:04:02 In defense of Child Mortality and Inceldom 1:07:46 Afrikangz confirmed for genetically superior 1:09:39 The Cycle of Civilization 1:13:17 Closing
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