New Guinea is considered one of cradles of civilization, considering it's one of the few places where agriculture was independently developed. The others are: the Fertile Crescent, the Great Chinese plain, Mesoamerica, Indus Valley and Central Andes.
Why therefore New Guinean populations failed to develop a complex society akin to that of all other centers of agriculture? Why New Guinean farmers failed to overwhelm all those hunter-gatherers even on their own island?
taro isn't productive enough for massive cities, also disease in the tropics, also the land hunter gatherers were on was worthless for agriculture
>>1009422
Didn't the hawaiins do better though they also used taro
I was gonna suggest it could be genetic intelligence but both groups are around 80
>>1011239
Genetics between human beings are phenotypical faggot. Separation of 100k years would be required at a mean if genotypes were to be differentiated.
Idiots like you are the shit the scientific method was invented to combat. Don't let the greatest mental software debugger in the history of humanity go the way of Logic just because you hate people of a different color from you.
>>1009422
This. Fucking mosquito bites.
>>1011259
>Genetics between human beings are phenotypical faggot.
What? Read that again.
Tropics are usually abundant with food because of all the crazy ass fauna and fruit. Also the soil in New Guinea is pretty shit.
The better question would be why the hell did some of them develop agriculture in the first place.
>>1011267
>Applying the same technique as Witherspoon,[1] Strauss and Hubbe analyzed data of head shape and found that, across three regions that correspond to three common racial definitions, a typical person in any region was about 30% likely to be more similar to someone from a different region than to someone within their own region.[8] In other words, head shape, one defining factor of race, does not correspond consistently to geographical heritage in the way it would be expected were genetic differences determinant of race. In even shorter words, the genotype may be similar among a race, but phenotype is less similar. This may explain how one white supremacist was so surprised to discover his African heritage.[9]
>>1009020
>>1009422
>>1011239
Cool highlands and subtropical Hawaii aren't the same. Without Papuans Polynesians would not have even existed my less survive without Papuans crops.
Regardless we know the rapid societal changes that occurred in PNG when the sweet potato came along, had they had sweet potato for over a thousand years like some groups in outer oceania, highland PNG would be montane city states rather than the densest uncontacted region on earth filled with hamlets.
>>1011273
...lowland Papua was Sago almost exclusively with banana.
No hunter gatherers existed in any real numbers in PNG
>>1011259
>>1011259
>Genetics between human beings are phenotypical faggot. Separation of 100k years would be required at a mean if genotypes were to be differentiated.
Human populations have been separated for almost 100k years.
>Idiots like you are the shit the scientific method was invented to combat. Don't let the greatest mental software debugger in the history of humanity go the way of Logic just because you hate people of a different color from you.
You really pwnd that racist hillbilly with all that evidence you provided
>>1011275
But the sentence you wrote didn't make sense or relate to your quote. Did you mean to say races are phenotypical groupings? Because "genetics are phenotypical" isn't even a coherent thought. Just look up the meanings of "phenotype" and "genetics".
