Ice Age Hunters and Pastoralists: Bio-Evolutionary and Climatic Roots of European Individualism

BL—The prehistoric invasions of the Indo-Europeans had a transformative effect in Europe, inaugurating a prolonged period of aristocratic individualism that resulted in several different strands of Indo-European genetic and cultural influence. MacDonald points out there is a northwest-southeast genetic and psychological gradient in Europe with individualism being more common in the historical…