[The Gaijin]

Damascus Syria is the longest consistantly inhabitied place on earth - some 7000 years. Chinese civilization is at least 5000 years old. Until 1500 or so years ago - northern Europe was covered with forest with a patchwork of hamlets connected by trails. The life of the inhabitants was short and brutish. No literacy, no organized education, no nothing. From the end of the dark ages till now it has been a pretty good run..but that could come to an end. It is an confluence of history and events - nothing to do with any "evolution" or special genes..