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>> The lack of “development” however I would attribute to the fact that the Yanomami and other non-private property based societies, continue to have relative a
by phkahler 4y ago
>> The lack of “development” however I would attribute to the fact that the Yanomami and other non-private property based societies, continue to have relative abundance of food.
That was covered. The women can feed the children on their own, so the men fight over women not resources.
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoYes perhaps poorly directly attributed on my part but I’m stressing that specific point
- yanderekko 4y ago>The women can feed the children on their own, so the men fight over women not resources. Notably the causality runs in both directions here - the fighting over women is what prevents the population from falling into a Malthusian trap. The next time someone tells you that pre-agricultural populations only spent 10 hours a week on work and the rest on leisure or whatever, you should reply asking what percentage of those populations died do to homicide. The answer might be revealing.
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoYou wouldn't get a coherent answer because again, this article tells us nothing about the average pre-historic human life. It only tells us about the Yanomami, we can't extrapolate from before they were around