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The survivors are indeed fit and healthy. The rest dies (often by someone else's hand) and isn't around to be observed.

defrost 2y ago
> The rest dies (often by someone else's hand) often ? Is that a first person observation, guesswork, or dubious inference on the basis of sparse evidence of occasional battles in some parts of the world? The certitiude of comments such as yours is always intriguing. For reference, in the region in question there's no archealogical evidence of any pitched battles in the Tanimi and genetic evidence supports people arriving in various parts of Australia and pretty much staying where they got to tens of thousands of years back until the 1800's at least. Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-09-22/world-first-study-reveals-rich-history-of-aboriginal-australians/7858376 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-09-22/world-first-s...
- inglor_cz 2y ago
  Pitched battles weren't a Stone Age occurence, true. That is more of a state and proto-state phenomenon. Tribal wars usually had form of raiding. There is ample evidence for homicide among hunters and gatherers, though. We don't like to hear it, because the Noble Savage myth is still going strong. https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gatherers-were-not-peaceful-paragons-of-gender-equality/ https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gat... Yeah, we don't have a comprehensive record of every tribe ever. But violence is attested pretty well among those that we have.
- spacebacon 2y ago
  It’s possible he spent his life studying the subject or watches a lot of Gistory Channel that often reveals blunt force trauma as a cause of death in various archeological digs. It seems to be a recurring theme that is safe enough to generalize without verbose reasoning attached.

> The rest dies (often by someone else's hand) often ? Is that a first person observation, guesswork, or dubious inference on the basis of sparse evidence of occasional battles in some parts of the world? The certitiude of comments such as yours is always intriguing. For reference, in the region in question there's no archealogical evidence of any pitched battles in the Tanimi and genetic evidence supports people arriving in various parts of Australia and pretty much staying where they got to tens of thousands of years back until the 1800's at least. Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-09-22/world-first-study-reveals-rich-history-of-aboriginal-australians/7858376 https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-09-22/world-first-s...

inglor_cz 2y ago
Pitched battles weren't a Stone Age occurence, true. That is more of a state and proto-state phenomenon. Tribal wars usually had form of raiding. There is ample evidence for homicide among hunters and gatherers, though. We don't like to hear it, because the Noble Savage myth is still going strong. https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gatherers-were-not-peaceful-paragons-of-gender-equality/ https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gat... Yeah, we don't have a comprehensive record of every tribe ever. But violence is attested pretty well among those that we have.
spacebacon 2y ago
It’s possible he spent his life studying the subject or watches a lot of Gistory Channel that often reveals blunt force trauma as a cause of death in various archeological digs. It seems to be a recurring theme that is safe enough to generalize without verbose reasoning attached.