Study: Farming Legacy a Factor in Present-Day Behavior

A customer from Beijing and one from Hong Kong walk into Starbucks. A chair blocks the path between the counter and their seats. Who of the two moves the chair? It's not a joke. It's a psychology experiment, designed to test the long-lasting imprints of a culture's agrarian past. A new study in the journal Science Advances says that over thousands of years, rice farmers in southern China have evolved a culture of interdependence not found in northern,...

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