This was very interesting, Tove! More importantly, it could turn out to be a very fruitful line of thinking. You've written elsewhere that you sometimes feel as though you have trouble expressing your ideas. I'm not sure how often that is the case, but, I do have a sense that some of the nuances of this idea may not be coming through clearly. I think this subject is worth writing more about, even if you don't develop the idea at all, if only for the sake of exploration and clarity.
>The process of overcoming male reproductive greed was very gradual and uneven.
One argument against it being gradual is that the first evidence of organized warfare is at the same time as domestication, about 14k years ago. Perhaps we were more docile in the past. We organized to settle down, but this organization also brought the tools to raid the next tribe.
>It did so at different times in different ecologies. First it happened in the most suitable ecologies, like the Fertile Crescent and ancient Egypt.
One thing that continues to puzzle me is that, to first approximation, it happened at the same time everywhere. Modern humans emerge something like 200k years ago, wait ~190k years. Then all over the world settle down at roughly the same time (plus or minus a few thousand years). Agriculture was invented independently about a dozen times! Hard to explain that with ecology.
This was very interesting, Tove! More importantly, it could turn out to be a very fruitful line of thinking. You've written elsewhere that you sometimes feel as though you have trouble expressing your ideas. I'm not sure how often that is the case, but, I do have a sense that some of the nuances of this idea may not be coming through clearly. I think this subject is worth writing more about, even if you don't develop the idea at all, if only for the sake of exploration and clarity.
>The process of overcoming male reproductive greed was very gradual and uneven.
One argument against it being gradual is that the first evidence of organized warfare is at the same time as domestication, about 14k years ago. Perhaps we were more docile in the past. We organized to settle down, but this organization also brought the tools to raid the next tribe.
>It did so at different times in different ecologies. First it happened in the most suitable ecologies, like the Fertile Crescent and ancient Egypt.
One thing that continues to puzzle me is that, to first approximation, it happened at the same time everywhere. Modern humans emerge something like 200k years ago, wait ~190k years. Then all over the world settle down at roughly the same time (plus or minus a few thousand years). Agriculture was invented independently about a dozen times! Hard to explain that with ecology.