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Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I [6.6.13]

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How to Establish Communication Without Language

Rousseau: Wishing for a return to the noble savage past is possibly one of the biggest errors that one might make philosophically. "I don't think life in the state of nature was nearly as pleasant as a lot of people would like it to be," he says. The first day I was in Yanamama village, an American Protestant missionary who had spent some time inYanamama before I got there brought me into the village and offered him a ride up the Ornoqua River. It's like Hobbes' war of all against war in many respects,. And Rousseau's way off the mark. Maybe not every man against every man. No. Every village against

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