IQ and the Values of Nations: or, How Your Country's IQ Affects Your Values


	IQ and the Values of Nations: or, How Your Country's IQ Affects Your Values

balthazarus

6-24-2009 12:08 PM

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psychology; evolution

balthazarus says:

This is the Savanna Principle: The human brain has difficulty comprehending and dealing with entities and situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment. (This same hypothesis has been referred to as the Evolutionary Legacy Hypothesis and the Mismatch Hypothesis as well.)

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