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StoneGloves Jan 22, 2008 06:48:41
Replying to CianMcLiam

Hmm - looks like I've got some reading to catch up on. I follow the Australian aborigines in the newspapers and am informed by that. I also claim to be British indigenous - and could survive out there, with little, just. I think the goal of evolution is fitness - perhaps we will now have to evolve thicker skulls again, and look back on the few decades, just past, as Golden Age. Happy Full Moon!

G gyrus
gyrus Jan 22, 2008 21:36:08
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
Hmm - looks like I've got some reading to catch up on. I follow the Australian aborigines in the newspapers and am informed by that.
The "take away" important point on that from the piece I linked to is that evidence of behaviour in contemporary indigenous cultures can't really be used to extrapolate about what they were like pre-colonialism (and even less so about what prehistoric cultures were like). Without getting into white guilt, it's common sense that cultures that have experience near- or as-good-as-genocide will be a bit more screwy and violent than those who haven't!

(Even as I write that, I think - good point, but what's our excuse? ;-)