[lbo-talk] FA: Sapolsky on baboons becoming SNAGs

[KJ]

On 1/1/06, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, KJ wrote:
>
> > The current story of human evolution suggests that human beings almost
> > didn't make it -- the line that became homo sapiens was down to around
> > 7000 individuals -- and that the 'secret' of pulling through was
> > learning to be cooperative, to work together, and not cut-throat
> > competition. The only other line that survived, it now appears, were
> > the Flores hobbits; all the other lines just died out.
>
> That's a great story, KJ.  Do you know of a good cite that sums it up as
> sharply as you just did but with more footnotes?

I got this from a documentary I happened to catch some time back. The
near extinction thesis comes from David Goldstein and Stanley
Ambrose's work, and Ambrose takes up the cooperation theme.

kj