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You changed your statement from "during which the hot-weather civilizations did stuff like invent algebra" to "there are long stretches of history where hot-weather civilizations outcompeted cold-weather civilizations". I am only contesting the original statement.

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I don't know, maybe I'm being imprecise? It doesn't much matter because the cold-winter hypothesis is specific, and we're just arguing over the specific shape the countervailing evidence takes. It's hard to find support for it in human history. It really does feel like it's based on a notion of evolution only starting 200 years ago.

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