Really fantastic article, love it. If revolutionary stuff wasn't coming by every other week, this would deserve a lot of attention. Very clearly stated, doesn'

Really fantastic article, love it. If revolutionary stuff wasn't coming by every other week, this would deserve a lot of attention. Very clearly stated, doesn't overreach, amazing work. Don't mean to overcomplicate the main point, but human behaviour everywhere lives on that spectrum of Malthus, from survival-driven to sex-driven. Stable and unstable microcosms pop up everywhere. I'd bet Chagnon was so controversial because the field he was trying to publish in is popularity-based (and therefore sex-driven), and not all that different from the tribe he was describing. > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.