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I think one of the explanations I once heard is that we have a lot of things locked up in our genetics and the environment we're born in (access to clean water, shelter, environmental like heat or extreme cold etc) is critical to unlocking higher intelligence.
Given that races themselves are an evolutionary trait to the environment they are in, it isn't that crazy to believe there is a difference in Intelligence based off race but the question is how much of that can be mitigated by environment as I doubt them growing up in leftist shitholes like Baltimore or totalitarian places like North Korea assist with this.
Environment plays a part because it forces natural selection harder.
Blacks, and many other "less civilized" groups lived in much harsher places, so they never had a chance to develop higher level intelligence. Think of Maslow's hierarchy, they could never ascend past the bottom level because they were never physically safe enough. And that still applies to both Africa blacks and them elsewhere, as they live in the most violent shitholes in nearly every country.
This doesn't mean you can just pluck one into a nice home and they magically grow smarter, anymore than a pitbull magically turns into a corgie in a good home.
IQ is heavily genetic, period, and countless centuries of that kind of environmental pressure means that women consistently choose the thuggish men (for safety and other valuable traits) to pass on the genes, while any weaker child usually dies off due to the harshness.
This doesn't have to even be a racial thing, it just is because the environment that makes such an evolutionary path also happened to be the same one that had the harshest sun to evolve skin colors.
i think its the opposite. They lived in warmer places with plentiful amounts of food and never had winters, so they never needed to have long term planning to survive the winters that had no food.
Lacking winter might help, but many areas just straight up had drought and dry seasons that made food just as difficult to grow. Often times more than just for a winter, which is why agriculture was far less developed if at all.
Its also not just "its hot" level problems, the fauna there is far more dangerous than in most other areas, with a lot more bite and venom to go around. Because even the animals themselves adapted to the harshness of it by becoming more lethal. Which means even the abundance of it isn't nearly as helpful because of how many you'll lose dealing with them.
There is a reason why nearly every "civilized" nation came out of somewhere that had cold/temperate climates, no matter how bad winter is, and most of the tribal slower to civilize ones came out of tropical and desert ones.