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>>15405151
Pic related is tradition. Contrary to the author’s obvious bias, it’s not at all certain that tradition is a negative. In fact, concerning the imagined monkeys’ situation, their tradition of beating anyone who attempts to climb the ladder is unequivocally good and preferable to a more liberal attitude which would put excess trust in the power of human (or monkey) reason to evaluate the value of their actions. Destroying their tradition would result in their all being soaked again as many times as they needed to relearn the lesson which had already been learned for them by their cultural ancestors, and suffering in the process.

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>>6962871
I already got the groundwork on mating strategies. Ethology is one of my interest and I got a did pretty well on that class.

>international war
Never mentioned it. Think tribal warfare.

>Biological truths
>hundreds of years in social changes
I'm not talking about an historical analysis. I'm talking of what you learn when you actually get on the field and get to directly observe other ways of life, ways that are supposedly closer to the way of life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Men tend to dominate, to war, women tend to have much more contact with children, etc, but all you can derive from the data are general tendencies and particularities to each ethnic group.

As to the nature of tradition, one should consider the context in which they arise, and judge if such behaviors would still be adaptative in the present context.

Took me a while to find this. Fresh from my aunt's email.