Napoleon Chagnon meticulously documented the customs of a tribe where violence was sexually rewarded. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it. by Peggy Sastre. He discovered that Yanomamö society was neither peaceful nor cooperative but held together by bloodshed and terror. Raids of rival villages were common, as was the killing of […]

Why human societies developed so little during 300 000 years. by Tove K – Wood From Eden. What Chagnon reported about, was a people living in a pre-Malthusian condition. That condition simply doesn’t exist in the theoretical framework we have inherited from the 19th century. The 19th century was itself heavily Malthusian. The population expanded […]