Will

@Evolving_Moloch

Student. Evolutionary Anthropology. Research Assistant at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab . Blogs on violence, warfare, rituals, deception.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2016.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. prije 4 sata

    'Coal burning power planets? Killing whales and tuna? A war 90 years ago? It's all the same, really--ultimately every complex cultural and historical phenomena can be easily understood via a hand-wavy reference to inbreeding.'

  2. 3. velj

    "While engaged on a hunting expedition, these hunters...glide along in single file, avoiding every leafy twig the rustling of which might betray their presence...At such times all tread in the footprints of the first man..."

  3. 31. sij

    "The bear is the only animal the Veddas really fear...at least one man in each community we visited bore marks of the bear's paws. Bear's flesh is not eaten though they sometimes kill one that has attacked them. Hence the bear is called the "enemy" n his name is seldom mentioned"

  4. 31. sij

    "As opposed to a canalized human life history strategy, this study suggests potential developmental plasticity in traits associated with foraging skill, which manifest not just in contemporary settings but potentially in ancestral settings as well."

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  5. 30. sij

    Mead was like the Einstein of anthropology--not the real world Albert Einstein of course, but like the way he was portrayed in that Family Guy episode where he slugs this guy who comes into the patent office and takes his work.

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  6. 29. sij

    Yeah things look bad and there's little reason to be optimistic on this front. I believe social scientists who do cross-cultural or evo work have a responsibility to seriously engage w/ the ethnographic evidence relevant to their topics, but many seem to think differently

  7. 28. sij

    "As elsewhere in Europe, war underpinned leadership in the late Roman n early medieval periods in northern Britain...elites in early medieval northern Britain were first n foremost leaders in war, with leadership-in-conflict one of the main qualities sought among aspiring rulers"

  8. 28. sij
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    Here's how Richerson and Henrich define them in the cultural evolution lit

  9. 27. sij

    Reminded me of R. Dale Guthrie's argument that much of the Paleolithic art that has been discovered is basically just doodling by young males

  10. 27. sij

    Very little about human history makes sense if you believe human beings cannot be moved by the deaths of people they've never met.

  11. 26. sij
  12. 26. sij
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    Pretty sure such findings tend to be driven by a failure to control for Galton's problem, they're not robust.

  13. 26. sij
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  14. 26. sij
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    Not America but famous example are the eight Qilakitsoq Inuit mummies from Greenland, dated 15th century

  15. 26. sij

    "[Innovation] happens where people are relatively prosperous, not desperate."- I tend to think this is generally true, and it's another aspect of why I think the logic behind the 'cold winters' hypothesis is badly flawed

  16. 25. sij

    "You have to be sly with the animals, you must pretend to be talking about someone else; by fooling the game this way, you somehow annul man's aggressiveness n wipe out the fatal act. The hunter's chanting seals the secret agreement between men n animals."

  17. 25. sij

    I think this conclusion is right. Love this figure but I think in practice the three boxes to the left tend to be under-utilized in a lot of evo psych work (as Smith n Hagen both agree), which is why I think critiques like Smith can be valuable despite the over-the-top conclusion

  18. 24. sij

    I'm going to be the reliable naysayer here and say that I don't think the fact that lots of young, secular college men around the world offer similar responses to the trolley problem in an online survey is all that meaningful *from a cross-cultural, comparative perspective*...1/2

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  19. 23. sij

    'Can we falsify the WEIRD problem by giving online surveys to people across EIRD societies and emphasizing the limited variation across them?' is quite a take. But N = 70,000 such big number! Tens of thousands of college students can't be wrong! Huuuuuge data!

  20. 22. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    Disgust sensitivity is related to habituation so I'd expect it to vary considerably based on things like access to sanitary products, sexual division of labor, etc.

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