How the logic of ‘winter selection’ shaped centuries of bad science
Famous evolutionary biologists like Alfred Russell Wallace proposed that humans got smarter as they learned to live in colder places. But there are a few big (and also bigoted) caveats in that thinking. Dylan Shaw/UnsplashHuman intelligence evolved in Africa. Joseph L. Graves Jr. breaks down the prejudiced ideas that led some biologists to think otherwise…
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