Our Lives Matter S1E19: Around the World in 40,000 Years, and 7 Failed Explanations of Race and Intelligence

Our Lives Matter

Apr 04 2024 | 00:28:24

00:00 / 00:28:24

Show Notes

Our ancestors originated in a small part of Africa and spread all over the world. They adapted to life in different places by using their intelligence to figure out how to live there. Many people have tried to explain the differences in people’s lifestyles on different continents by explaining how people in different parts of the world could’ve evolved different levels of intelligence. All of those hypotheses failed because they never defined human intelligence correctly in the first place. The history of failed explanations for the relationship between race and intelligence lays the foundation for the real connection between intelligence…

Other Episodes

Episode 17

March 21, 2024 • 00:29:07

Our Lives Matter S1E17: The Evolution of Religion

Human intelligence lets us see a big picture of the world, and makes us wonder how to see an even bigger picture. All over...

Episode 15

March 07, 2024 • 00:23:17

Our Lives Matter S1E15: The Stone Age + 50,000 Years

Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today. ...

Episode 13

February 22, 2024 • 00:24:55

Our Lives Matter S1E13: The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology

Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution...