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

[Keith Henson]

Bes


On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
> Neither have much predation.  I make a case that Bonobo population
expansion puts them where they die from sleeping sickness.

Unlike chimps

Keith


> 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:
>
>>
>> ---------- 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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