[ExI] Fwd: Journal of Big History Vol. VIII, Issue 2, 2025

[Jason Resch]

Congratulations Keith! A fascinating read.

A few questions and thoughts occurred as a I read it, which perhaps you
have given some thought to:

Regarding why Bonobos don't go to war, could predation be a factor? Are
bonobos preyed upon to a degree that Chimpanzees are not?

Also, why is there no concept of war among dolphins (that I am aware of)?
Is it because their normal mating strategy involves males leaving their pod
to find another, rather than remaining with their group and their females?
-- pods usually being so small that without leaving it, would have extreme
levels of inbreeding, whereas human tribes could be much larger (though it
was perhaps not uncommon for females or males to exchange between tribes).

A final question: could the degree of inter-relatedness make more war
costly for one's genes (e.g. if I am a species that has undergone a
population bottleneck, and there is little diversity in genes, then all the
people I would go to war with would effectively be close relatives
(genetically speaking))? So could the amount of genetic diversity in one's
species determine the profitability of war?

Jason

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Journal of Big History Vol.  VIII, Issue 2, 2025
>
> It took over two years, but the article finally got published in a journal.
>
> The bit about bonobos is a new observation.  Clears up a long-standing
> mystery about why they are so different from chimps.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Keith
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Journal of Big History <jbh at bighistory.org>
> Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
> Subject: Journal of Big History Vol. VIII, Issue 2, 2025
> To: Daniel de Pinho Barreiros <daniel.barreiros at ie.ufrj.br>
>
>
> Korotayev, Andrey (2025) Toward Periodization of the Biosocial Era of the
> Big History: A Reanalysis
> *Journal of Big History*, VIII(2); 1–37.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8201
>   van Duin, Martin (2025) “What more can we learn from a master plot of
> energy rate versus mass for a wide variety of (complex) systems” *Journal
> of Big History*, VIII(2); 38–53.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8202
> <https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8202>
> LePoire, D. J. (2025) “Viewing History from Multiple Perspectives.” *Journal
> of Big History*, VIII(2); 54–70.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8203
>   Black, Kieran (2025) “Climate and the Periodization of Ancient Greece:
> A Big History.”
> *Journal of Big History*, VIII(2); 71–99.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8204
> Maldonado, Carlos (2025) “The Big Picture about the Origin of Life:
> Tackling an Intractable Problem.”
> *Journal of Big History*, VIII(2); 100–105.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8205
>   Simmons, Edward (2025) “Big History as an Extended Origin Myth:
> Including Spirituality and Values in Big History.” *Journal of Big
> History*, VIII(2); 106–123.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8206
> Henson, H. Keith, Arel Lucas (2025) Genetic Selection for War in
> Prehistoric Human Populations.
> *Journal of Big History*, VIII(2); 124–127.
> DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8207
> <https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v8i2.8207>
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