[ExI] Humans are a uniquely dangerous species

[William Flynn Wallace]

Here is a book you two might find very interesting, even if it is rather
old:

Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from
Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State - Peter Farb - still
on Amazon

>From the grub-eating Shoshone to the civilized Zunis, this is a book you
cannot fail to find fascinating.  It does deal with captures of members of
other tribes.

bill w

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:37 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:58 PM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyway this is just to say that extreme power hierarchies (such as
>> slavery) can exist without any physical technology.  That technology makes
>> enforcement much easier, but a slave class could be created by early
>> tool-less humans.
>>
>
> ### Sure, under some special circumstances slavery should be possible
> without these additional technologies I discussed earlier but in general
> hunter-gatherers are not likely to keep slaves, much less create a
> genetically distinct slave lineage.
>
> Soon though the technology will exist to genetically create slaves. I
> recently read a delightful book, Derek Künsken's "The Quantum Magician",
> where genetic slavery figures quite prominently, and adds some very
> surprising but logically satisfying twists to the plot.
>
> I just purchased the sequel, "The Quantum Garden".
>
> Rafal
>
>
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