PinnedOf Peacock’s Tails, Agriculture, and Civilization’s Existential DangersBoyd and Richerson (“Culture and Evolutionary Process” 1985:269) posit that adaptive models can only account for limited investment in agriculture, since archaeological evidence shows increase in malnutrition and disease associated with sedentism and greater human densities. …Agriculture11 min readAgriculture11 min read
Apr 6Heroes and JusticeA society might be better in terms of individual freedom and equality if it aggressively promotes all the things that conservative political elements hate… you know — the “liberal” agenda. In fact this agenda is usually about stricter outlawing of all the kinds of things that set up inequality in…6 min read6 min read
Nov 24, 2019On 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 after she was buried under the sandy floor of her hut. The people (four families, plus the new widower and his two children)…Short Story3 min readShort Story3 min read
Oct 22, 2017Life Expectancy, Life Span, and the Size of Human BeingsDisease and Accidents kill many people: throughout history, most have not survived to live their full potential life span. I was startled by this article I recently read at “ancestry.com” about what people in the USA ate in 200 years ago. I was not surprised because of the foods, but…Science13 min readScience13 min read
Aug 26, 2017Why they matter: hunter-gatherers todayThis paper documents some specific observations made during a few years of research were conducted in Botswana among Kua hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari. The Foraging Systems and their Ecological Effects Among the three main language groups of foragers surveyed in the south eastern Kalahari, there were similarities in keeping…Environment19 min readEnvironment19 min read
Jun 26, 2017We are in NatureLately, a study has come to my attention, which has cast doubt on the oft asserted claim that eating less meat would help reduce greenhouse gases that are a product of millions of farting cattle (methane). Here it is, and interestingly, it suggests that it is factory and feedlot farming…Vegan7 min readVegan7 min read
Jun 17, 2017Economies 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 identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the source of human sensibility and acquire a knowledge…Economics55 min readEconomics55 min read
Mar 23, 2017Culture, Play, and ParentingBased on a couple of talks with neuroscientist Dr. Kwame M. Brown in February of 2015Parenting17 min readParenting17 min read
