Rex Kerr
Apr 29, 2023

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This can also be overstated, of course, because you can also find contemporary tribes that are a lot more peaceful than the ones you mention.

It doesn't entirely change the point, though, because you don't need all of your ancestors to have lived in brutal conditions in order to fix alleles that help survive brutal conditions. You just need enough of them so that survival-of-brutality was, in the long run, an essential trait.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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