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And I think that you're severely underestimating the impact of infrequent existential threats, and how that interplays with slight improvements to fitness compo
by yarg 3y ago
And 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.