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The indigenous Australians are one example of a people ‘doomed,’ or determined by circumstances, to persist in the hunter-gatherer way of making a living, from the lack of a suite of affordances crucial to […]

Zeug #115 We did, yes! There weren’t any others when I started composing my own reply, but by the time I’d written it and it had appeared, there were several others too. I don’t think it matters, though, in this […]

Ah, guys, I think we might have accidentally dogpiled our new guest. Sorry about that, Dan! Didn’t realize everyone else would chip in as well.

But culture for its own sake, is its own driver.

Dan #103, In Geoffrey Cochrane and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000-Year Explosion: How Civilisation Accelerated Human Evolution, the authors satisfactorily and concisely explain how agriculture, then later, animal […]

Correction to my Hobbes quote #106, In Hobbes’ memorable description, life outside society would be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ Carry on!

I have to correct myself.  Göbekli Tepe (9500 bce) is much older than Poverty Point (1600 bce).