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samoan62's avatar

Nice read! Glad someone had looked into this.

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Jim Jackson's avatar

Distribution of glacial ice masses could have been a cause of the Han IQ being higher than that of the Germanic nations. At the last glacial maximum, northern Europe was ice-bound, and the European peri-glacial tundra was at much lower latitudes than was the most northerly tundra in largely ice-free eastern Siberia, i.e., in the Upper Paleolithic Han populations probably had to function in colder climates than did Western Hunter Gatherer populations.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11601-2/figures/1

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