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Of Peacock’s Tails, Agriculture, and Civilization’s Existential Dangers

Boyd and Richerson (“Culture and Evolutionary Process” 1985:269) posit that adaptive models can only account for limited investment in…

Aug 17, 2017

Of Peacock’s Tails, Agriculture, and Civilization’s Existential Dangers

Aug 17, 2017

Kalahari Fires

Here is an essay orignally written for the festschrift of Henry Lewis…

Sep 24

Sep 24

Are humans innately warlike?

A book by Steven Leblanc, anthropologist, has me in a kind of outraged shock. It seems that he has fallen for the view that humans are…

Dec 15, 2023

Are humans innately warlike?

Dec 15, 2023

Heroes and Justice

A society might be better in terms of individual freedom and equality if it aggressively promotes all the things that conservative…

Apr 6, 2023

Heroes and Justice

Apr 6, 2023

On spirits and ghosts:

While I was in the Kalahari with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Kua, a woman died. I did not witness this, I arrived at the camp…

Nov 24, 2019

On spirits and ghosts:

Nov 24, 2019

Life Expectancy, Life Span, and the Size of Human Beings

Disease and Accidents kill many people: throughout history, most have not survived to live their full potential life span.

Oct 22, 2017

Life Expectancy, Life Span, and the Size of Human Beings

Oct 22, 2017

the oldest known economic system.

Tribal?

Aug 26, 2017

the oldest known economic system.

Aug 26, 2017

Why they matter: hunter-gatherers today

This paper documents some specific observations made during a few years of research were conducted in Botswana among Kua hunter-gatherers…

Aug 26, 2017

Why they matter: hunter-gatherers today

Aug 26, 2017

We are in Nature

Lately, a study has come to my attention, which has cast doubt on the oft asserted claim that eating less meat would help reduce greenhouse…

Jun 26, 2017

We are in Nature

Jun 26, 2017

Economies as Trophic Flows

“…We did not arrive on the planet as aliens. Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we…

Jun 17, 2017

Economies as Trophic Flows

Jun 17, 2017

Helga Vierich

Helga Vierich

Anthropologist; sustainable subsistence economies, culture change, ecological engineering and human evolution .

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