Though harmful in the extreme, this seems a normal, helpful human adaptation and we're all on the continuum.
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Diet is not just about personal appetites, but a culturally evolved structure analogous to (and overlapping with) religion.
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@AnarchoPapist The basic question I find useful is, how do meme populations over time resemble biological taxa and how do they not? -
@AnarchoPapist oh and here's one of my favorite papers http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Boyd%20Richerson%20Henrich%20The%20cultural%20evolution%20of%20technology%207.pdf …
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@AnarchoPapist that's just when it starts to get interesting!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AnarchoPapist Yes! Though I think it goes much deeper than just disease prevention. Ancestral human diets vary wildly but they all work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AnarchoPapist reason in what sense? general intelligence, or Grand Unifying Purpose?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AnarchoPapist Ah! Reason is a useful construct, just like Food Purity and Ideological Purity, that doesn't have to exist to work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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