Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
> >
> > > > Are "primitive" human tribes which still
> > > > use stone age technology actually less intelligent than us?
> > >
> > > No, indeed.
> >
> > One might expect they should be - primitives are typically more likely
> to
> > suffer from childhood starvation than moderns with Internet, and
> childhood
> > starvation is in turn supposed to lower adult intelligence.
>
> Depends on the environment, surely.  I think people in the tropical
> forest
> areas (aside from the occasional weather-related famine) are quite
> well
> nourished.  For hunter-gatherers, there's really a surfeit of food.  If
> they
> have a little agriculture, even better.
That's the point - even a brief spell of starvation during childhood is
supposed to be deterimental to mental development.

                                                   Andreas