Really fantastic article, love it. If revolutionary stuff wasn't coming by every other week, this would deserve a lot of attention.
Very clearly stated, doesn't overreach, amazing work.
Don't mean to overcomplicate the main point, but human behaviour everywhere lives on that spectrum of Malthus, from survival-driven to sex-driven. Stable and unstable microcosms pop up everywhere.
I'd bet Chagnon was so controversial because the field he was trying to publish in is popularity-based (and therefore sex-driven), and not all that different from the tribe he was describing.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Very clearly stated, doesn't overreach, amazing work.
Don't mean to overcomplicate the main point, but human behaviour everywhere lives on that spectrum of Malthus, from survival-driven to sex-driven. Stable and unstable microcosms pop up everywhere.
I'd bet Chagnon was so controversial because the field he was trying to publish in is popularity-based (and therefore sex-driven), and not all that different from the tribe he was describing.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.