Our IQ descent from Denisova to tech civilization*.
What's your ideal scientist? Filled with super intelligence and intellect, and lacking bias, right? The popular but miserably wrong PC idea is that it was somehow "cooperation", not intelligence, that sparked the birth and spread of modern humans and our technology. Both Svante Pääbo and Peter Klevius think not. Peter Klevius even questions the very concept 'cooperation' because he can't comprehend how it would be even possible in any 'social group' not to cooperate without losing membership in it - even temporarily. Peter Klevius exemplified it in Demand for Resources with reports about "evil bushmen" individuals who were actually outcasts and therefor no longer San in any meaningful sense (1992:66). Resursbegär ( Demand for Resources by Peter Klevius 1992, ISBN 9173288411). The civilized human walks back in her/his foot steps, strikes a light and lets her/himself be enlightened and glorified Only the forg...