PinnedHelga VierichOf 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…11 min read·Aug 17, 2017----
Helga VierichAre 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…27 min read·Dec 15, 2023----
Helga VierichHeroes and JusticeA society might be better in terms of individual freedom and equality if it aggressively promotes all the things that conservative…6 min read·Apr 6, 2023--2--2
Helga VierichOn 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…3 min read·Nov 24, 2019----
Helga VierichLife 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.13 min read·Oct 22, 2017--2--2
Helga VierichWhy 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…19 min read·Aug 26, 2017----
Helga VierichWe 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…7 min read·Jun 26, 2017----
Helga VierichEconomies 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…55 min read·Jun 17, 2017--4--4
Helga VierichCulture, Play, and ParentingBased on a couple of talks with neuroscientist Dr. Kwame M. Brown in February of 201517 min read·Mar 23, 2017----
