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> The simple truth is that men handled the vast majority of situations where combat was required I think you greatly overestimate how much combat people faced
by ernst_klim 3y ago
> The simple truth is that men handled the vast majority of situations where combat was required
I think you greatly overestimate how much combat people faced during prehistoric times. Population was distributed sparsely, most food was gathered, not hunted, and was abundant, and you don't fight predators to scare them off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithi...
- yarg 3y agoAnd I think that you're severely underestimating the impact of infrequent existential threats, and how that interplays with slight improvements to fitness compounded over hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, I'm damned near certain of it.
- hef19898 3y agoThe most existential threat in pre-industrial times was a bad harvest. It meant starvation. That men used their de-facto monopoly on violence to start dominating their communities is a different story.
- yarg 3y agoSo agriculture? 10,000 years ago. ~Modern humans have been around 30 times longer than that.