
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Darwinian Perspective on Seasonality in Early Humanity
The davidsend are pushing a progressive mirror to the conservative take that all good aspects of the western world are based entirely on the christian tradition. Almost all the early signs of civilization look seasonal to some degree, like the striking mammoth houses which were constructed from the bones of mammoths. This seasonality also shows up in anthropologist accounts of hunter gatherer societies. For instance, at gebecly tepe, activities around the stone temples correspond with periods of annual superabundance between midsummer and autumn. During this period, property was possessively marked, and patriarchs exercised coercive power over their kin. But in the long winter months, when seals and walrus
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