[billwagnon]

There may be genetic pressure, but I expect that if you were born and raised in a mud hut you would not be living the same life as you are here.

I think the original poster, bless his heart, is implying that if these "cavemen" would get a clue they could lead a full productive life like we in the U.S. He would do well to save his trash for a year just to see what *he* is doing to the environment, and then compare that to what a "caveman" generates in the same time period. I suspect in a couple months he would exceed the trash output of the "caveman's" lifetime.

There's going to be a shock when "caveman" China follows the same progress that the U.S. did since WWII. All the steel, petroleum, etc is going to the highest bidder, and that is not going to be US.