GGR329H5 Lecture Notes - Richard Herrnstein, The Bell Curve, Typhus

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1: yali"s questions, up to the starting line, a natural experiment of history. Until 1960s, european colonial conquest racial and ethnic superiorities. Western european combat advantage: arquebuses, muskets, cannons. Eurasian diseases new world populations: small pox, typhus fever, measles, viral hepatitis, many others. Don"t look for main causes for anything. Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to new. Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own. (full name: yali singina (1912-1975) of sor) No passive entertainment (book: the bell curve intelligence and class structure in american life by richard. History followed different courses for different peoples b/c of differences among peoples" environment, not b/c of biological differences among people themselves. But irrigation systems followed, not accompanied, bureaucracies agriculture originated in hills and mountains: guns, infectious diseases, steel tools, manufactured products , e. g. New synthesis of broad patterns based on recent findings in varied scientific disciplines.

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