Razib Khan

Category: Cultural Evolution

  • The punctuated equilibrium of culture

    John Winthrop, ~1600. Mitt Romney, 2008 – image credit, Jessica Rinaldi Recently Megan Mcardle had a post up where she expressed curiosity as to why “futurists” circa 1900 had a tendency not to imagine revolutions in clothing style …

  • Band of brothers at war

    The fruits of human cooperation The Pith: Human societies can solve the free rider problem, and generate social structure and complexity at a higher level than that of the band. That implies that much of human prehistory may have been characterized by…

Razib Khan