Index

• Aaviksoo, Jaak, 347
• ability, rewarding, 329–30
• abiogenesis, 30–1
• accent, discrimination, 94
• accumulated wisdom, 113–19
• ad hominem, 82–3
• Adams, John Quincy, 341
• adaptability, 332–3
• adaptive evolutionary systems, 86–8
• adjacent possibilities (A), COMPASS, 155–6, 315
• adolescence, 169–70
• affirmative action, 360–1
• Afghanistan, lessons from, 191–5
• Africa
  • climate change and, 215
  • diversity in, 253–6
  • genetic diversity in, 132–3
  • ghost population, 137
  • low resources in, 253–6
  • Scramble for Africa, 253
• Africa, studying intelligence in, 109–13
• Agricultural Revolution, 164
• agriculture, 48–50
• Alexander the Great, 346
• algorithms, 87, 89, 117, 258–9, 337, 343, 347, 349, 368
• Alphabet, 287, 363
• AlphaGo, 369
• AlShebli, Bedoor, 321
• Amazon, 287, 298
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), 58, 287
• American Dream, 358
• American Psychological Association, 102, 104
• Andalusi, Said al-, 66
• Angola, 109–13
• Ankh-Morpork see melting pot model
• Antony and Cleopatra, 152
• apes, studying, 71–5
• apple pie, making, 142
• Araud, Gérard, 241
• arbitrage, 151
• aristocracy see entrepreneurs
• ARPANET, 38
• arriéré, 99
• Arthur Andersen, 330
• artificial intelligence (AI), 366–71
• Asian Tigers, 315
• ‘Association between Early Career Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations and Junior Author Performance’, 321
• ATP, 31
• Australia, 149, 235
  • cane toads in, 22–3
  • democratic polices in, 264
  • heritability in, 121–2
  • lithium reserves in, 216
  • Sandline Affair, 3–4
  • solar panels in, 47
  • sustainably managed migration in, 249–52
  • wealth in, 284
• Australian Cultural Orientation (AUSCO) Program, 249–50
• Austria, 174
• Azerbaijan, 236

• Baby Boomers, 311
• Back to the Future (film), 318
• bags, 35–6
• Bahrami-Rad, Duman, 255
• Baldwin, James, 176–8
• Baldwinian process, 176–7
• barbarians, 65–7, 138
• batteries of life, 31–2
• Battle of Dimawe, 255
• Beauchamp, Jonathan P., 255
• Beck, Sarah, 113–14
• Becker, Anke, 175
• Belgium, 174
• Bell Curve, The (Murray), 105
• Benedict, Ruth, 69
• Benjamin, case study, 286–7
• Bergstrom, Carl, 370
• Berners-Lee, Tim, 38
• Bezos, Jeff, 284, 287, 292, 294–5, 297
• biases, 75, 81, 122, 124, 188, 196, 216, 238, 322, 326, 331, 340
  • bias blindspot, 320–1
  • pay-off biases, 337–8
• Biden, Joe, 191, 193
• Biles, Simone, 341
• Binet, Alfred, 99
• Binet-Simon test, 99–100
• biology, history of, 17
• Bitcoin, 277–8
• Bitcoin Genesis Block, 278–9
• ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’ (Nakamoto), 277
• Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME), 133, 138
• Black Death, 53
• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), 133, 138
• blood sports, 200–1
• Blueprint (Plomin), 105
• Boas, Franz, 67–9
• Bolt, Usain, 341
• bootstrapping problem, 176
• Born Rich (film), 335
• Botswana
  • corruption in, 4–6
  • resources in, 254–5
• brains
  • collective brains, 52–3, 82, 86, 141, 148, 161, 182, 205, 214, 269, 282, 316, 337, 344, 374
  • cultural brain hypothesis (CBH), 164–70
  • head size and, 167–8
  • individual brains, 344–5
  • large brains, 79, 82, 163–4
• Brandeis, Louis, 263
• Bregman, Rutger, 223, 299–300
• Brexit, 215
• bridges, 154
• brightness
  • artificial intelligence (AI), 366–71
  • Flynn effect acceleration, 347–55
  • introduction, 344–7
  • maximizing human potential, 357–66
  • opportunity distribution, 355–7
• Brin, Sergey, 38, 89, 287
• Britain, 87, 148–9, 195, 260, 311, 313, 353, 357, 373
  • Brexit and, 215
  • civilizations and barbarians, 66
  • geographical distance of, 235
  • last of the hominins, 38
  • Norway versus, 220–9
  • reversing aristocracy of, 299
  • Sandline Affair and, 3–4
  • Slavery Abolition Act in, 307
  • start-up cities, 268
  • taxing unproductive money in, 305
  • wealth appropriation and, 288–92
• Buchanan, Pat, 265
• Buddhism, 199
• Buffett, Warren, 302
• Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, 22–3
• Burghers, 134–5
• Burke, Robert, 70

• calculus, term, 143–4
• Cambrian Explosion, 35
• Canada, 14, 142, 235, 312
  • CANDU reactors in, 61
  • defense minister of, 174
  • hydro in, 45
  • IGE in, 358
  • mosaic model in, 243
  • multiparty system in, 265
• cane toads, 22–3
• Capital in the Twenty-first Century (Picketty), 298
• capitalism
  • entrepreneurs and, 292–6
  • evolution of, 287–8
• carbon dioxide (CO₂), 33
• Carlson, Tucker, 223
• Carnegie, Andrew, 327
• carrying capacity, 164
• cell-eat-cell world, 33–4
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 188
• CERN OPERA, 16
• cesareans, 166–70
• Chain, Ernst, 147
• Chan, Julius, 4
• Charlotte Opportunity Initiative Collaboration, 365–6
• chemistry, history of, 17
• Chesterton, G. K., 276
• Chetty, Raj, 365
• children, 164, 198, 208, 217, 230, 262, 297, 302, 335, 340
  • in ancient society, 86–8
  • brightness and, 344, 346, 351–4, 357–60, 365–6, 368, 381
  • child support, 170–1
  • cooperative child-rearing, 178–9
  • crows and, 113–14
  • cultural diffusion of literacy, 122
  • in cultures of intelligence, 106–13
  • developmental delays in, 126–7
  • in Estonia, 149
  • finger counting and, 115–16
  • in hunter-gatherer societies, 158
  • immigrant children, 93–4
  • information grandmother hypothesis, 179–80
  • inheriting intelligence, 98
  • IQ tests and, 101–2, 107
  • in loving families, 184–5
  • Norway versus Britain, 224, 227–9
  • OECD testing, 129
  • pastoralism, 175
  • performing against chimps, 71–5
  • traditional marriages and, 172
  • in Uzbekistan, 85
• Chile, 216
• chimpanzees
  • as cooperative child-rearing, 178–9
  • experiments involving, 71–5
  • head size and, 166–70
• China, 16, 363, 369–71, 380
  • AI facial recognition, 370–1
  • Communist Revolution in, 291–2
  • governance and, 261–7
  • nuclear age and, 313
  • rewarding ability in, 329–30
  • solar panels, 216
  • start-up cities in, 268–75
• Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 262–3
• Chinese Exclusion Act, 231
• chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 7
• Christendom, 106
• Christian IV of Denmark, 309
• Christianity, 199, 274
• civilized, 65–7
• coal, 9, 29, 39, 41–5, 60, 202, 221, 224–5, 229, 313
• collapse, potential for, 213–18
• collective brain thinking (C), COMPASS, 146–8
• collective brain see innovation
• COMPASS, 352
  • adjacent possibilities (A), 155–6
  • collective brain thinking (C), 146–8
  • introduction to, 145–6
  • magpie strategy (M), 150–3
  • off the beaten path (O), 148–9
  • paradox of diversity (P), 153–5
  • sharing is critical (S), 158–9
  • social beats smart (S), 156–8
• control systems, 7–8
• cooking, 48–9
• cooperation
  • corruption and, 189
  • cultural-group selection, 195–7
  • impartiality, 190–5
  • laws of life and, 205–9
  • long peace and, 200–5
  • mechanisms of, 184–9
  • puzzle of, 181–4
  • religion, 197–200
  • rule of law and, 190–5
• cooperation, law of, 26, 51–6, 26
• cooperative child-rearing, 178–9
• corruption, 189, 237–
• counting, 143–5
• COVID-19, 231
• Cowen, Tyler, 58
• CrashCourse (YouTube series), 359
• Creating Moves to Opportunity (CMTO), 365
• crime, committing, 237–8
• CRISPR, 316
• cronyism, 189
• crows, experiments involving, 113–14
• cryptocurrency, 277, 280–1
• crystallized intelligence, 104–5
• cultural anthropologists, 69
• cultural brain hypothesis (CBH), 164–70
• cultural evolution, 51, 122, 159, 169, 180, 224, 233
  • adaptive evolutionary systems and, 87–8
  • brightness and, 348, 368, 376, 382
  • cultural reasoning and, 81, 84
  • defining, 18, 20
  • evolution of, 78–9
  • governance and, 266–7, 276
  • Internet and, 335–6, 341, 343
  • of mating practices, 173
  • punctuated innovation and, 318–31
  • strategic copying, 90–1
• cultural fixation index (CFst), 235
• cultural inheritance, 77–8
• cultural learning, 146, 368
• cultural-group selection, 195–7, 205, 224, 260, 266–7, 276, 301, 326
• culture cultural evolution, 78–9
• culture-gene co-evolution, 18, 136, 177
• culture, being created by, 162–3
  • brain size, 162–3
  • cooperative child-rearing, 178–9
  • encephalization, 163–75
  • grandparents, 179–80
  • language, 176–8
• Cunningham, Ward, 317
• Cunningham's Law, 317
• Czechia, 174

• Daily Show, The, 241
• DALL-E 2, 370
• Darwin, Charles, 56–7, 69, 97
• Darwin, Erasmus, 97
• Davis, Helen Elizabeth, 85, 112
• Dawkins, Richard, 185, 330–1
• death taxes, 225; see also inheritance taxes
• decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), 277, 279, 281
• Declaration of Independence, US, 341
• Deep Blue, 369
• democracy by assent, 262
• democracy by selection, 262
• democracy, defining, 261–7
• demographic swamping, 196
• Denisovans, 37
• Denmark, 174, 357, 358
• Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 69
• digital interfaces, 276
• digital money, 277–82
• dinosaurs, 36
• direct competition, 196
• direct reciprocity, 186–7
• Discord, 157
• diversity, 87
  • cultural diversity, 133, 216, 229, 248, 332
  • ethnic diversity, 321–2
  • genetic diversity, 37, 132–3
  • magpie strategy, 150–3
  • paradox of, 153–5
  • resolving paradox of, 230–9
  • structuring, 332–3
  • superficial diversity, 332
• Dolezal, Rachel, 131
• domestication, 48–50
• dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), 118
• downstream effects, 359–64
• dual inheritance theory, 18
• Dutch, 134–5
• Dyson, Freeman, 59–60

• Edison, Thomas, 145
• Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company (Ediswan), 145–6
• education
  • brightness and, 346–50, 352, 355–9, 362–3, 366
  • as form of cultural diversity, 248
  • formal education, 85, 107, 111, 158, 346
  • public education, 355, 359
  • skill boosters and, 327
  • systems of, 85, 107, 149, 349
  • wealth and, 294–96
• Egypt, 236
• Einsteinian physics, 14–15
• emergency instrumental interventions, 168
• encephalization
  • child support, 170–1
  • cultural brain hypothesis, 164–70
  • explaining, 163–4
  • patriarchy, 173–5
  • premature babies, 170–1
  • sexual norms, 170–1
  • traditional marriages, 172–3
• End of History and the Last Man, The (Fukuyama), 261
• energy, 1–3
• Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Wrigley), 43
• energy ceiling
  • introduction to, 38–40
  • law of cooperation, 51–6
  • law of energy, 41–8
  • law of evolution, 56–8
  • law of innovation, 48–51
• energy return on investment (EROI), 178, 202–5, 215, 217, 225, 229, 299, 312, 313, 318, 375
  • Hardin's field and, 207
  • law of cooperation, 51–6
  • law of energy, 41–8
  • law of evolution, 56–7
  • law of innovation, 48–51
  • new energy sources, 58–60
  • nuclear energy and, 60–4
• energy revolution, 318
• energy slaves, 296
• energy, law of, 25, 41–8
• Enlightenment, 53, 97, 157, 202, 209, 260
• Enron Corporation, 330–1
• Enron effects, avoiding, 330–1
• enthymemes, 83–6
• entrepreneurs, 292–6
• Estonia, 149, 347–50
• ethnicity, 135, 207, 222, 227, 246, 248, 362
• eugenes, 98
• eugenics, 97–9
• eukaryotes, 33–4
• Euler's identity, 144
• euphemism treadmill, 100
• Eurasia, 13, 21, 37, 137, 204, 224
• European Medicines Agency (EMA), 188
• everyday, laws of life in, 27–9
• everything, brief history of
  • bags and tubes, 35–6
  • batteries of life, 31–2
  • beginning of life, 30–1
  • dinosaurs, 36
  • eukaryotes, 33–4
  • Great Oxygenation Event, 32–3
  • introduction, 30
  • joy of sex, 34–5
  • Neolithic, 37–8
  • rise of humans, 37
• evolution, law of, 267, 56–8
• evolutionary rationality, 81–2
• evolvability, 332–3
• exponential functions, understanding, 127–8
• extended evolutionary synthesis, 18
• ‘eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth’ see direct reciprocity

• Facebook, 157, 258, 317, 336
• families, 184–6
• famous-for-being-famous phenomenon, 89
• fear of missing out (FOMO), 335
• females
  • child support and, 170–1
  • patriarchy and, 173–5
  • premature babies and, 170–1
  • sex differences, 124–30
  • sexual norms and, 170–1
  • traditional marriage and, 172–3
• FIFA World Cup, 240, 244
• Financial Times, 290
• finger counting
  • heritability, 121–3
  • variability in, 116
• Finland, 358
• First Amendment, US Constitution, 323
• First World War, 102
• 5S strategy, 159–61
• Fleming, Alexander, 146–7
• Florey, Howard, 147
• fluid intelligence, 104–5
• Flynn effect, 120, 138, 345
  • accelerating, 347–55
  • Tiger Leap Foundation (Tiigrihüpe), 347–50
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 188
• Forsyth, Mark, 93, 152
• fossil fuels, 40, 45, 45–6
• foundations, 300, 302
• four Fs of life, 1
• FOXP2, gene, 177
• France, 174, 241–2
• Franklin, Benjamin, 128
• Franklin, John, 70
• free speech, unfettered, 319–26
• Freeman, Clinton, 351
• Friedman, Milton, 305
• Frijters, Paul, 252
• Fukuyama, Francis, 261
• Fuller, Buckminster, 28

• Galef, Bennett, 74
• Galton, Francis, 97–8
• Gandhi, Mahatma, 186
• Gates, Bill, 64, 287, 294–5, 297, 302
• gender wage gap, 319–20
• generalization, 232, 351, 362–3
• generative pretrained transformer (GPT), 370
• genetic differences, populations, 130–40
• genetic information, 77
• Genghis Khan, 329
• geniuses, 355–7
• George, Henry, 303–4, 309
• Germany, 174
• Giving Pledge, 302
• global positioning system (GPS), 80
• Goldilocks zone, 78–9
• Goodyear, Charles, 151
• Google, 33, 89, 141, 151, 230, 257, 268–9, 287, 324
• Gore, Al, 6–7, 265, 373
• Gould, Stephen Jay, 283
• governance
  • introduction to, 261–7
  • programmable politics, 275–82
  • start-up cities, 268–75
• grandparents, 179–80
• Great Britain, 235
• Great Convergence, 204
• Great Divergence, 204
• Great Leap Forward, 271
• Great Oxygenation Event, 32–3
• Great Stagnation, 59, 214, 312, 316–18, 347, 369
• greater male variability hypothesis, 126–130
• Green Revolution, 29, 50–1, 52, 164, 316
• Green, John, 359
• greenhouse gases, 32–3
• GREs, 122–3
• gross domestic product (GDP), 252
• Grosvenor Estate, 290
• Grosvenor, Gerald, 290
• Gutenberg, Johannes, 146, 155–6
• Guugu Ymithirr, 118

• Haji, Nafisa, 195
• Haldane, J. B. S., 185
• Hall, Charles, 42–3, 375
• Hamilton, Bill, 185
• Harari, Yuval, 201
• Hardin, Garrett, 182, 207–9
• Hawaiian pizza, 150
• Hayek, Friedrich, 305
• heads, size of, 166–70
• Heine, Steve, 8
• Henrich, Joseph, 71, 255
• Henry George theorem, 305
• Hereditary Genius (Galton), 98
• ‘Hereditary Talent and Character’ (Galton), 98
• heritability, 357
  • IQ and, 105
  • number of fingers, 121–3
  • predicting, 115
  • richer Americans, 123–4
• Herrnstein, Richard, 105
• Heywood, Jamie, 159–61
• Himba, people, 85–6, 109–13
• Hinduism, 199
• Hinton, Geoffrey, 367
• His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), 237
• Hitler, Adolf, 89–90
• Hobbes, Thomas, 213
• hominins, last of, 37–8
• Homo economicus, 80
• Homo sapiens, 1, 9–10, 22, 36, 71, 134
• Hong Kong, 194, 268–70, 315
• Horner, Victoria, 72
• hot-or-not judgement, 90
• Housing and Development Board, Singapore, 309
• Hubbert, M. King, 40
• humanity, reuniting
  • diversity/low resources in Africa, 253–6
  • introduction, 219–20
  • lessons from Australia, 249–52
  • Norway–Britain relationships, 220–9
  • optimal acculturation, 239–49
  • resolving paradox of diversity, 230–9
  • Second Enlightenment, 256–60
• humans
  • adaptive evolutionary systems, 86–8
  • apes and, 71–5
  • barbarians and, 65–7
  • civilized and, 65–7
  • cultural evolution, 78–9
  • cultural reasoning and, 80–6
  • culture creating, 162–80
  • illusion of explanatory depth, 75–6
  • innovation (collective brain), 141–61
  • intelligence obsession, 97–140
  • knowledge founts, 77–8
  • learning strategies of, 88–92
  • primitive peoples, 67–70
  • rational animals, 70–1
  • religions, 92–6
  • rise of, 37
  • social learning strategies, 93–6
  • strategic coping, 90–2
• hunter-gatherers, 49, 107, 202, 206, 316
• Hussain, Hasib, 5
• Hussein, Saddam, 269–70
• hydro, 45

• illusion of explanatory depth, 75–6
• Ilves, Toomas Hendrik, 347
• immigrants, 150, 226, 231–4, 237–8, 245–6, 248, 252
• impartiality, 190–5
• incentive audits, 339–41
• Inconvenient Truth, An (film), 6–7, 373
• indirect reciprocity, 187
• individual learning, 78–79, 368
• Indonesia, 236
• Industrial Revolution, 38, 39, 50, 53, 108, 158, 206, 209, 214, 224, 260, 316, 317, 333, 343, 346
• inequality
  • 1971 events, 311–13
  • entrepreneurs, 292–6
  • inheritance taxes, 296–303
  • introduction to, 283–7
  • unproductive money, 303–11; see also land value tax
  • wealth appropriation, 286, 288–92
  • wealth creation, 285–8
• information grandmother hypothesis, 179–80
• inheritance taxes, 296–303
• innovation
  • 5S strategy, 159–61
  • COMPASS, 145–59
  • counting and, 143–5
  • cultural evolution creating, 318–33
  • Great Stagnation and, 316–18
  • introduction, 141
  • introduction to, 314–16
  • law of, 25–6, 48–51
  • making apple pie, 142–3
• institutional punishment, 187–9
• integration, challenges of, 220–9
• intellectual arbitrage, 51
• intellectual property (IP), 328–9
• intelligence
  • accumulated wisdom, 113–19
  • culture-free IQ test, 101–2
  • cultures of, 106–13
  • cultures of intelligence and, 106–13
  • education affecting, 106–13
  • eugenics, 97–9
  • facts, 104–6
  • grab bag of concepts in, 101
  • heritability, 121–3
  • higher heritability, 123–4
  • intelligence-IQ contrast, 102–4
  • introducing Intelligence Quotient, 100–1
  • introduction to, 97–9
  • measuring, 99–104
  • origins of, 99–100
  • population differences in, 130–40
  • revisiting facts about, 119–21
  • revisiting facts about IQ, 119–21
  • revisiting IQ facts, 119–40
  • sex differences and, 124–30
  • sex differences in, 124–30
  • terms emerging from, 100
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
  • IQ test facts, 104–6
  • revisiting facts about, 119–40
• intergenerational elasticity of income (IGE), 358
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 7
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 237
• Internet, 106, 157, 159, 179–80, 209, 230 272, 276, 20
  • Great Stagnation and, 316–18
  • improving see social media, improving
  • introduction to, 334–6
  • Second Enlightenment and, 256–60, 333
  • skill boosters and, 327
  • social learning, 336–43
• Interstellar (film), 80
• Inuit, 68–9
• Iranian Revolution, 312
• Iraq, 269–70
• Islam, 199, 274

• Jackson, Andrew, 341
• Japan, 272–3
• Jetsons, The, 318
• Jinping, Xi, 262
• Johnson, Jamie, 335
• Jones, Steve, 257
• Jordan, 236
• Judaism, 93

• Kahneman, Daniel, 81–2, 151
• kaizen, 272, 328
• Kant, Immanuel, 202
• Kasparov, Garry, 369
• Kauffman, Stuart, 156
• kgotla, 254
• Khan, Mohammad Sidique, 5
• Khasi, people, 174
• Kipling, Rudyard, 67
• Klerk, F. W. de, 5
• Knight, Phil, 91
• knowledge, founts of, 77–8
• Koch, Charles, 285
• Kochtopus, 294
• König, Peter, 118
• Krugman, Paul, 305
• Kunene River, 109

• land value tax
  • introducing, 304–5
  • Monopoly and, 303–4
  • transitioning to, 305–8
  • valuing land, 308–11
• land, valuing, 308–11
• Landlord's Game, 303; see also Monopoly (game)
• language, 176–8
• laws of life, 20
  • brief history of everything, 30–8
  • cooperation and, 205–9
  • energy ceiling, 38–58
  • in everyday, 27–9
  • introduction to, 21–2
  • law of cooperation, 26
  • law of energy, 25
  • law of evolution, 27
  • law of innovation, 25–6
  • new energy sources, 58–60
  • nuclear energy, 60–4
  • TOTTEE genre, 21–2
  • ultimate explanations, 22–7
• learning strategies, 88–92
• Liberia, 191
• life experience, 77
• Life (magazine), 367
• light bulb, inventing, 145–6
• Lincoln, Abraham, 377
• Lindsay, Germaine, 5
• Little Britain (TV show), 256–7
• Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarch), 152
• Loftus, Elizabeth, 117
• long peace, 200–5
• loopholes, 184, 227, 237, 300, 302
• Luria, Alexander, 85, 112

• McDonald's, 151, 244
• machine learning, 366–71
• McKinsey, Adam, 362
• McLean, Malcolm, 314
• Madison, James, 148, 341
• Magie, Lizzie, 303–4
• magpie strategy (M), COMPASS, 150–3
• Makovi, Kinga, 321
• males
  • child support and, 170–1
  • patriarchy and, 173–5
  • premature babies and, 170–1
  • sex differences, 124–30
  • sexual norms and, 170–1
  • traditional marriage and, 172–3
• Malthus, Thomas, 40, 57–8
• marriages, traditional, 172–3
• Marshall Plan, 331
• Marx, Karl, 304
• matriarchy, 173–5
• Maxwell, James Clerk, 16
• Mead, Margaret, 69
• mechanism of cooperation
  • direct reciprocity, 186–7
  • families, 184–6
  • indirect reciprocity, 187
  • institutional punishment, 187–9
• median household outcome, 139
• melting pot model, 244–6
• meritocracy, 296–7, 329–30
• Merkel, Angela, 248
• messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), 80
• methane (CH₄), 33
• Microsoft, 287, 332, 363
• Microsoft Academic Graph, 321–2
• migration, 37, 132, 134, 137–8, 196, 231–3, 237–42, 244, 247–9, 264, 274
• Mill, John Stuart, 297, 319
• Minsky, Marvin, 366–7
• misinformation, 87, 230, 317, 322, 325–6, 334
• Modern Synthesis, 69–70
• Mohammad, Abdul, 362
• monogamy, 172–3
• Monopoly (game), 303–4
• Monroe, James, 341
• Montenegro, 174
• Moon, Debbie, 270
• Morris, Ian, 204
• Mosuo solution, 171
• Mugabe, Robert, 253
• Munroe, Randall, 317
• Murdoch, Rupert, 292
• Murray, Cameron, 252
• Murray, Charles, 105
• Musk, Elon, 89, 275, 284, 287–8, 294–5, 325, 354
• Muslims
  • and evolution of religion, 197–8
  • sharia support from, 192
  • ummah, 197

• Nadella, Satya, 267
• Nader, Ralph, 265
• Nakamoto, Satoshi, 277–9
• Namibia, 109–13
• Namibian Association of Norway (NAMAS), 110
• Nash equilibrium, 183–4
• nation-state, 275–6
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 131
• National Health Service (NHS), 225
• natural selection, theory of, 15, 57, 69, 78, 185
• Naturalization Act, 133
• Nature Communications (journal), 321–2
• Nazis, 99
• Neanderthals, 37
• Neolithic, 37–8
• neoteny, 169–70
• nepotism, 189, 255
• Netherlands, 174
• neural networks, 367
• neutrinos, 16–17
• ‘New Methods for the Diagnosis of the Intellectual Level of Subnormals’, 99–100
• New York Times, 231, 259, 298, 338, 369
• New Zealand, 235
• Newtonian physics, 14–15
• Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary see chimpanzees, experiments involving
• Nielsen, Mark, 114
• 1971, wealth during, 231–3
• Nisbett, Richard, 104
• no hyphen model, 241–2
• Noah, Trevor, 241
• Nobel Prize, 80–1, 151, 207, 305
• noble lie, 322
• North Africa, 241–2, 346
• North, Thomas, 152
• North Sea, 220–9
• Northern Regional Research Lab, 147
• Norway, 357
  • Britain versus, 220–9
  • education in, 108
  • heritability in, 121–2
  • IGE in, 358
  • Namibian schooling, 109–13
  • North Sea resource tax, 310
  • social mobility in, 357
  • ten oil commandments of, 223
• nuclear fission, 60–3
• nuclear fusion, 62–4
• number line, 144
• Nye, Joseph, 240

• Obama, Barack, 89, 131
• off the beaten path (O), COMPASS, 148–9
• oil, discovery of, 43
• Oljefondet, 220–1
• On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 69, 97–8
• One Thing That Explains Everything, The (TOTTEE), 21–2
• Opportunity Insights, Harvard, 365–6
• opportunity, distributing, 355–7
• optimal acculturation
  • introduction to, 240–1
  • melting pot model, 244–6
  • mosaic model, 243
  • no hyphen model, 241–2
  • umbrella model, 246–8
• optimal assimilation, 154
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 129
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 44, 312
• Ostrom, Elinor, 207
• oxygen, 32–3
• Ozawa, Takao, 133

• Page, Larry, 38, 89, 287
• Pakistan, 236
• Panopoulous, Sam, 150
• Papua New Guinea (PNG), 3–4
• paradox of diversity (P) COMPASS, 153–55
  • resolving, 230–9
• pastoralism, 175
• patent laws see intellectual property (IP)
• patriarchy, origins of, 173–5
• pay-off biases, 337–8
• peer punishment see direct reciprocity
• penicillin, 146–7
• personal protective equipment (PPE), 231
• Phelps, Michael, 90–1
• photosynthesis, 32
• physical, mentalizing, 115–16
• physics, history of, 14–16
• Picketty, Thomas, 298
• pigmentation politics, 133
• Pinker, Steven, 100, 130, 140, 201
• Pirsig, Robert, 219
• Plato, 322, 346
• Plomin, Robert, 105
• plowing, 174–5
• Poincaré, Henri, 14
• policies, innovation applied to, 318–19
  • Enron effects, 330–1
  • intellectual property (IP), 328–9
  • rewarding ability, 329–30
  • skill boosters, 327
  • structuring diversity, 332–3
  • unfettered free speech, 319–26
• Polk, James K., 341
• polygyny threshold model, 172–3
• population differences, intelligence, 130–40
• Portman Estates, 290
• Portman, William, 290
• positive eugenics, 99
• positive-sum conditions, 53
• Postel's Law, 324
• potential, maximizing, 357–66
• Powell, Enoch, 226–7
• power plants, EROI for, 46
• ‘Preeminence of Ethnic Diversity in Scientific Collaboration, The’, 321–2
• premature babies, 170–1
• prestige-biased cultural group selection, 196–7
• primates, studying see apes, studying
• primitive peoples, 67–70
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 360
• programmable politics
  • defining, 275–7
  • digital money, 277–82
• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 129
• Progressive Matrices IQ test, 101–2
• Project Aristotle, 324
• proliferation, 62
• property rights, 51, 306
• prospect theory, 81
• Public Health England, 188
• public school, term, 228
• Putin, Vladimir, 200, 223, 284

• quadratic voting, 280
• Quakers, 199, 376

• race, 94, 98, 130–3, 135, 138, 202, 207, 227, 241, 296, 306
• racial categorization, 133–34
• Rahwan, Talal, 321
• Ramakrishnan, Venki, 353
• rational animals, 70–1
• Raven, John, 101–2
• Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices, 111
• Rawls, John, 310
• reciprocal altruism see direct reciprocity
• Reddit, 157, 257, 336, 337
• regulation, 62
• religion
  • evolution of, 197–200
  • human animals and, 92–6
• reputation, improving, 338–9
• resource curse, 222
• resource hex, 222
• retard, term, 100
• Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians (Murray), 252
• Ritchie, Stuart, 109
• robustness principle, 324
• Roman Catholic Church, 7, 332–3
• Romans, 66–7, 148–9
• Romney, Mitt, 301
• Rosling, Hans, 201
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 213
• Roxbury Rubber Company, 151
• rule of law, 190–5
• runaway cultural evolution, 376
• Russia 244

• Sadow, Bernard, 35
• Sagan, Carl, 141
• St Andrews, Scotland, studies at see chimpanzees, experiments involving
• Sandline Affair, 3–4
• SATs, 122–3
• Schaller, Mark, 8
• Schimmelpfennig, Robin, 202
• Schnell, Eric, 202
• schools, 144, 179, 190, 280, 295, 336
  • brightness and, 345–8, 351, 353, 355, 359–61
  • heritability and, 123
  • as human universal, 345–6
  • introducing, 85
  • IQ and, 107–14
  • magpies and, 151–2
  • private schools, 228–9, 295
  • publicly funded schools, 55
  • in suboptimal local equilibria, 355
• Schulz, Jonathan, 255
• Schumpeter, Joseph, 285
• science of us, studying, 13–18, 20
• science, censoring, 230–1
• Science (journal), 71, 182, 184
• Scientific Revolution, 53
• Second Enlightenment, 256–60, 316–17, 343
• Second Industrial Revolution, 317
• Second World War, 224–5, 290
• Secret of Our Success, The (Henrich), 159
• securitized reputations, 338
• selection, 87
• selective, assortative migration, 196
• self-similarity, 342–3
• Selfish Gene, The (Dawkin), 331
• sex differences, intelligence, 124–30
• sex, explanation for, 23, 25
• sex, joy of, 34–5
• sexual norms, 170–1
• Shakespeare, William, 151–3
• sharia, 192
• sharing is critical (S), COMPASS, 158–9
• shuhari, 273
• Silicon Valley, 76, 88, 145–6, 160, 267–8, 272, 327–9
• Simon, Herbert, 80–1
• Simon, Théodore, 99
• simulators, minds as, 117–19
• Singapore, 235–6, 240, 268, 269–70, 315, 352
• Skate, Bill, 4
• skill boosters, 327
• Skilling, Jeffrey, 330
• Skinner, B. F., 77
• slavery, 245, 296, 306–9, 319, 374
• Slavery Abolition Act, 307
• small modular reactor designs (SMRs), 62
• Smil, Vaclav, 29
• social beats smart (S), COMPASS, 156–8
• social brain hypothesis, 163
• social learning, 71, 79, 86–7, 166–7, 326, 334
  • social media, 336–43
  • strategies of, 90–1, 93–5, 334
• social media, improving, 335
  • bursting bubble, 337
  • incentive audits, 339–41
  • introduction, 336–7
  • pay-off biases, 337–8
  • reputation, 338–9
  • self-similarity, 342–3
• Socrates, 346
• Solow, Robert, 209
• Soroban abacus, 115–16, 120
• Sound Taxes, 309
• South Africa, 4–6
• South Asia, 362–3
• South Korea, 194–5
• Spain, 174
• specialization, 154
• Sri Lanka, 4
• StackOverflow, 317
• standardized container, 315–16
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, 100
• Staphylococcus aureus, 147
• start-up cities, 268–75, 352
• steel-manning, 324
• Stern, William, 100
• Stiglitz, Joseph, 305
• strategic coping, 90–2
• Stroop effect, 118–19
• Substack, 157, 337, 338
• Summers, Larry, 127
• super-ethnic, 199
• sustainably managed migration, 247–53
• Swan, Joseph, 145
• Switzerland, 174
• System 2, 82

• Taiwan, 216
• Takao Ozawa v United States, 133
• Tangen, Nicolai, 223
• Tanweer, Shehzad, 5
• Tasmania, 157
• Taylor, Zachary, 341
• ‘Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers’, TED Talk, 349
• team of teams approach, 266–7
• tent school, 110
• Terman, Lewis, 100
• Tertullian, 92
• Thaler, Richard, 81
• theory of everyone
  • brightness, 344–72
  • collapse, 213–18
  • conclusion, 373–8
  • cooperation, 181–217
  • creative explosion, 314–33
  • defining, 20
  • governance, 261–82
  • human animals, 65–96
  • human brains, 162–80
  • improving Internet, 334–43
  • inequality, 283–313
  • innovation (collective brain), 141–61
  • intelligence obsession, 97–140
  • introduction to, 13–20
  • laws of life and, 21–64
  • reuniting humanity, 219–60
• Thind, Bhagat Singh, 133
• Thorpe, Ian, 91
• three Rs, 347
• Tiger Leap Foundation (Tiigrihüpe), 347–50
• TikTok, 114, 159, 258–9, 317, 336
• Toyota Way, 50transmission, 87–8
• Transparency International, 110
• Trompenaars, Fons, 190
• Trump, Donald, 258, 294, 343
• Trump, Ivanka, 335
• trusts, 290–1, 301, 308
• tubes, 35–6
• Tucker-Drob, Elliot, 109
• Tversky, Amos, 81, 151
• Twitter, 89, 157, 317, 336, 363
• Tyler, John, 341
• Tylor, Edward Burnett, 67

• Uber, 159–61
• ultimate explanations, systems-level, 22–7
• umbrella model, 246–8
• United Kingdom, 312, 357, 359
  • land value tax in, 305–8
• United States, 149, 174, 312, 357, 359
  • Afghanistan and, 191–5
  • cultural fixation index (CFst) and, 235–7
  • diversity distribution on, 332–3
  • Gettysburg address, 377
  • heritability in, 123–4
  • Housing Choice Voucher Program, 365
  • land value tax in, 305–8
  • liberal democracy in, 261–4
  • math SAT scores in, 360
  • median wealth in, 283–4
  • melting pot model in, 244–6
  • minimum wage in, 284–5
  • Opportunity Insights, 365–6
  • regional differences in, 234
  • unfettered free speech, 319–26
• United States v Bhagat Singh Thind, 133
• unproductive money, taxing, 303–11; see also land value tax
• upstream differences, 359–65
• US Immigration Act, 231–2

• violence, 200–5
• voting, 264–5

• Wallace, David Foster, 1
• wantrepreneurs, 273
• Warren, Elizabeth, 131
• Washington Post, 259, 292, 338
• Washington, George, 341
• wealth
  • appropriation, 286, 288–92
  • creation, 285–8, 293
• Webster, Noah, 149
• Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD), 67, 90, 104, 106, 111, 172, 183, 188, 294–5, 256, 262, 270, 281, 341, 351
• White Man's Burden (Kipling), 67
• Whiten, Andrew, 72
• Wikipedia, 157, 317
• Wills, William, 70
• Wilson, E. O., 213
• Wolfram, Conrad, 349
• Wolfram, Stephen, 349
• Woon, Wei Lee, 321
• World Economic Forum, 299
• World Wide Web, 38
• Wrigley, Tony, 43

• Yellow River Valley, 66
• Yemen, 236
• Yew, Lee Kuan, 240
• Yom Kippur War, 312
• YouTube, 114, 201, 336

• zebibah prayer bump, 9
• Zeigarnik effect, application of, 27
• zero-sum conditions, 54–6
• Zimbabwe, 253–4
• Zuckerberg, Mark, 325
• Zuma, Jacob, 172