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"A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century"

9/4/2023

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By the time I finished this book, I decided not to work another job on the graveyard shift.

Informed by the last 6 million years of modern human existence, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century focuses on some of the practices, structures, and ideas applicable to individuals and collective members of the modern world.

Lots of takeaways; it's more or less whatever chapters apply to you. 

The first half of the book lay the foundation for the second, so I enjoyed it most. In the first half, every chapter details lesser-known human histories (Chapters 2-3), new perspectives (Chapter 4), and lesser-known facts (Chapters 5-6). 

One of my favorites was "Ancient Bodies, Modern World." As a result, Chesterton's fence is one of the concepts I now hold as a principle. At the time of this writing, I can't say that I also hold T.O. as a principle, but it's now a consideration of mine.


"Asking Nature or nurture?" isn't wrong simply because the answer... or... the categories themselves are flawed, but also because once you understand that there is one common evolutionary goal, getting precise about mechanism is less important than understanding why a trait came to be."

That excerpt is only a snapshot of why Chesterson's fence stuck with me, even though it's just one of multiple concepts in the book. I take it that it's an example of what the authors refer to as "first principles."
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In Chapter 8, at one point, I felt that Heying & Weinstin were letting me in on some secrets. Ironically, it was this study of evolutionary biology of which I had the most exposure over the years.

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