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by r3trohack3r 454 days ago
> People are the same everywhere

This is not true in general. Environment does not only influence behavior, it selects for it.

As evidenced by our ability to breed behavior traits in domesticated animals - I.e. ragdoll cats, retrievers, rat terriers, etc. have distinct behavioral traits that have been intentionally selected for.

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Those dog breeds differ by like a factor of 10 in size, way more than humans basically in any aspect.

But yeah, depending on how strong the selective force is... Ashkenazy Jews have an average IQ of what, around 130 points? But on the other side also suffer a lot more genetic disorders.

Interesting are also the altitude tolerance of Sherpa, body morphology of the Kenian runners and the dive endurance of a particular South east asian tribe (if I remember correctly), some organ is able to store a lot more blood than usually