Do you think there are other aspects of these taboos which make the net benefit positive?
Taboos prohibiting consumption of various nutrient dense foods among populations that are chronically undernourished is difficult to explain functionally. Human's reliance on culture and social learning means maladaptive beliefs can spread.pic.twitter.com/bx8yETRiCp
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I don’t think so, but I wouldn’t dismiss the idea out of hand.
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Interesting. This very much makes me think about limitations of genes affecting culture. Not that it doesn’t, but that there are some missing puzzle pieces.
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Boyd and Richerson's 'The Origin and Evolution of Cultures' is an interesting look at this kind of stuff, that's where the third excerpt I posted above comes from.
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As someone on a whole-food plant-based diet who has done some research on the topic (not directly, but reading credible, peer-reviewed sources), it appears very unlikely to be protein deprived if you are getting sufficient calories, unless you are doing something very strange.
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Check the highlighted portions in the first excerpt, those taboos restrict a lot of nutrients.
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Whats the name of Papua New Guinea book?
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First excerpt comes from here http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAS302.pdf … and second excerpt from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01531125 … 'Sick Societies' by Robert Edgerton also talks about this
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Cheers for that. Kim Sterelny's SNAFU paper has a few other colourful examples.
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this is a nice way of saying humans are full of bad ideas, and good at passing those ideas on
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Look at veganism.
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Those tribal customs remind me of The Missionaries, a great book.
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