It's a good article, Kamran. A much fuller study and analysis by
Richard Lee is forthcoming, I understand; I'll send a link to the list
when it is ready. Richard looks at the evidence for & against two these:
that foraging societies are especially violence-prone, and that
pre-agricultural humanity had more aggression than today's. Evidently,
contemporary evidence is more direct than archeological; but as
contemporary foraging societies are very few and not free of influence
from neighbors, the evidence from them is tricky in a different way:
there is a trade-off. Richard earns our gratitude for conscientious
examination of the mountains of evidence--- more than I imagined existed.
Chandler
On 19/07/2015 10:59 PM, Kamran Nayeri wrote:
> http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2015/07/1938-new-study-of-foragers-undermines.html
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