Re: Primitives affect on the environment (was: POLITICS - Anger manageme...

[Guest guest]

>Just curious...did any of *Price's* groups - our model for *healthy*

>primitives - radically change their environments? I'm coming up blank when I

>try to think of one his groups that might've drastically altered their

>environment, but maybe someone else can come up with one?

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[Chris's reply]

He studied the Bantu, who, iirc, conquered most of Africa in the past and

radically altered the genetic stock of Africa, if that counts. And mass

extinctions occurred at the hands of humans by the *ancestors* of many of the

groups Price studied. I think I came across some other examples in _Guns,

Germs

and Steel_ but it's been a while.

Chris

[Guest guest]

>[Chris's reply]

>

>He studied the Bantu, who, iirc, conquered most of Africa in the past and

>radically altered the genetic stock of Africa, if that counts. And mass

>extinctions occurred at the hands of humans by the *ancestors* of many of the

>groups Price studied. I think I came across some other examples in _Guns,

Germs

>and Steel_ but it's been a while.

>

>Chris

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Hey, when are we starting our new Diamond book on nt-politics? Sounds

like this is right up his alley ... (I got my copy and am slathering ...)

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Heidi Jean