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Comment by WalterBright | Hacker News Reader

The American peoples split off from the Asian peoples 25,000 years ago, and are the same intelligence today.

That would seem unlikely unless they were the same then as today.

I find how misleading these illustrations are, hilarious. The average European looked subsaharan African (chedderman) 9-10k years ago, but 24k years ago, I'm supposed to believe light skinned Asians with thin straight hair existed.

This is absolutey wrong and is history denial. Black people were in the Americas long before the Olmecs in central America (another ancient African civilization).

All these "Asian" people were highly melanated black people, (Asian historians understand this fact) and they are descendants of mostly fishermen related to Khoikhoi and modern day Xhosa people of south Africa.

Asians are smarter though

Not enough to be considered a different species.

I don't think that's relevant here. There is almost a 10 point variation between Japan's average IQ and United States. That's quite a lot.

It seems quite plausible older humans could all be significantly below 100 average and have just not figured anything out.

That would fly in the face of nature, where wild animals are almost universally more cognitively resourceful than domesticated versions.

Its special pleading to say humans should be different.

There's wild humans today living in tribes in Amazon jungle and papua new guinea and africa. They're some of the lowest average IQ in the world.

And they would laugh at you and think you're a dullard for not being able to navigate in the jungle and identify every plant you come across.

IQ tests have ingrained cultural factors just like the standards of intelligence those tribes have.

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