[ExI] Recent human evolution repost

[Anders Sandberg]

Mirco Romanato wrote:
> It selected for the same in other places of Europe also.
> The advantage of England was/is to be an island, so it was safe from
> foreign invasions that could have slowed the coming of the Industrial
> Revolution as they slowed or stopped it in Holland and Italy.
>   

Hmm, Romans, Vikings, Saxons, Normans, the Dutch.... Britain has 
probably been invaded and taken over more often than than the average 
European country.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University