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"More "Deleted Scenes" from Cochran and Harpending"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've gone ahead and pre-ordered the book. I know they have to market or languish, but I almost regret getting the taste now, since I have to wait for the rest.

1/12/09, 10:58 PM

Blogger RobertHume said...

I've gotten hooked on Kindle and would like to download it, but Cochran and Harpending have not yet indicated that they would be willing to do that.

One problem I've found so far with Kindle is that illustrations are often missing. If illustrations are important in this book, I'd be inclined to get the hard copy. Does anyone know if it will be available on Kindle and if illustrations are important?

1/13/09, 7:47 AM

Anonymous testing99 said...

That something special is tool-making. Tools like spears allow even a smaller man to be the equal of a larger one if he's surprised, so stealing someone's mate is not healthy.

Then too, hunter-gatherers must depend on the larger group because even the best hunter can come up unlucky and empty.

This "flatness" and lack of social hierarchy and inter-dependence probably explains the "longing" for the primitive lifestyle (which is also brutal and bloody, constant low-level warfare and murders) even though the resource advantages of agricultural societies are evident.

1/13/09, 9:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cochran and Harpending's book website is blocked here in China, as was Sailer's until a few months ago. Sino-bureaucratic oversight or stupidity?

1/13/09, 3:26 PM

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1/13/09, 8:22 PM

Anonymous headache said...

t99 sed:
"This "flatness" and lack of social hierarchy and inter-dependence probably explains the "longing" for the primitive lifestyle (which is also brutal and bloody, constant low-level warfare and murders) even though the resource advantages of agricultural societies are evident."

I'm not advocating a primitive lifestyle but the Bushmen (San) in the Kalahari basically live like this and actually do not have the violent society you describe. Many are Christians nowadays and some are moving back to the bush lifestyle as Christians (they now have legislative protection and their own lands). These people have nature in their genes; they can understand animals and live peacefully with nature in their own sense. The fact there are so few means their ecological footprint is negligent. Their hierarchy is flat and they live in little groups but they are very peaceful. It’s the Bantu with their Big-man hierarchies who first brought violence to southern Africa, followed by the British Colonists. In the process the Bushmen almost got wiped out.

1/15/09, 8:08 AM

Anonymous Reader said...

Anonymous said...

Cochran and Harpending's book website is blocked here in China, as was Sailer's until a few months ago. Sino-bureaucratic oversight or stupidity?



I'm having the same problem. I can load the site for their book using a web proxy, but the link to the "Deleted Scenes" page won't work, as it uses some kind of Javascript thing.

I'm also perpetually annoyed by being able to check blogs hosted on Blogger but not Wordpress.

1/16/09, 6:24 AM

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