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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have to agree with Robert. I studied this a great
deal and found no evidence to support such a population control idea. It's all
about the women. At the time resources were plentiful and human over-population
has never been a problem. Even now, there are more resources than there are
people. Get a window seat on your next cross-country flight to see what I
mean. You would think that material wealth would play a role such as
buildings and tools, but village burning (or bombing) is far too common for that
to be a factor. When you remove all the things that don;t work out, all you have
left if the competition for mates. You can see similar behaviour in wild
dogs and cats. </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=robert.bradbury@gmail.com
href="mailto:robert.bradbury@gmail.com">Robert Bradbury</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 17, 2006 11:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] 'a process of
non-thinking called faith' 2 (2)</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 11/17/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Keith
Henson</B> <<A
href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><BR>Faith
is a manifestation of the psychological mechanism that (in<BR>appropriate
conditions) leads to wars. Wars were the evolved
hunter<BR>gatherer mechanism for keeping the human population in bounds that
could be supported by the ecosystem. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Keith, I think
the evidence for prehistoric "population control" were slim to none. As
the dominant and migratory population in ancient times if humans exhausted the
local resources they just got up and migrated (which is why we are all over
the planet). Wars are more fundamentally about spreading ones
genes. You can cite everything from the current situation in the Sudan
where the Arabs are specifically raping the non-Arab women to (a) impregnate
them with their genes and (b) make them undesirable to non-Arab men. Men
do not like to dedicate resources to children which are clearly not theirs or
at least not closely related to them (children of brothers or sisters).
<BR><BR>Another example is the recent evidence that American Indians may have
engaged in hunting parties for the purpose of capturing women. Indeed in
war one general outcome for the losers is that the men are killed but the
women are broubht back to make *more* babies. This is entirely a
consequence of the fact that men have greater abilities to go out and get
resources and making babies is cheap while for women making babies is both
resource intensive and tends to diminish their ability to care for children
they already do have. <BR><BR>Wars are due to the desire to get resources to
have more sex and produce more children thus spreading ones genes. If
one has ever watched two males (elephants, lions, etc.) fighting for dominance
one realizes its all about who gets the harem. <BR><BR>Robert<BR><BR>
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