Linked List / April 2020

Histomap of Evolution ➶

Beautifully typeset streamgraph from 1942 with some quite racist information — a product of its time. As puts it in Sapiens (pp. 135–136):

Yet, to the best of our understanding, these hierarchies are all the product of human imagination. Brahmins and Shudras were not really created by the gods from different body parts of a primeval being. Instead, the distinction between the two castes was created by laws and norms invented by humans in northern India about 3,000 years ago. Contrary to Aristotle, there is no known biological difference between slaves and free people. Human laws and norms have turned some people into slaves and others into masters. Between blacks and whites there are some objective biological differences, such as skin colour and hair type, but there is no evidence that the differences extend to intelligence or morality.

✶ Thursday, 16 April 2020


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