I don’t approve of taw’s tone—as you note, it is more off-putting than persuasive. But “ancestral environment” is an applause light in this community. I don’t see what your comment adds beyond reinforcing the applause light.
The meaning is, however, found in the original context. stcredzero:
When we lived as hunter gatherers
That’s a reference to ancestral environment.
One should note, though, that studies of murder rates amongst hunter gatherer groups
That’s a reference to present-day hunter-gatherers, with the implication that what we see among modern groups so described is what happened among humans generally in the Paleolithic, when hunting and gathering were the only ways that people had yet invented for getting their food. This is the fallacy that taw is talking about when he says:
We have precisely zero samples of any real Paleolithic societies unaffected by extensive contact with Neolithic cultures.
I don’t approve of taw’s tone—as you note, it is more off-putting than persuasive. But “ancestral environment” is an applause light in this community. I don’t see what your comment adds beyond reinforcing the applause light.
“Ancestral Environment”? I thought he was talking about the phrase “Hunter Gatherer”. The former phrase isn’t even in the comment!
The meaning is, however, found in the original context. stcredzero:
That’s a reference to ancestral environment.
That’s a reference to present-day hunter-gatherers, with the implication that what we see among modern groups so described is what happened among humans generally in the Paleolithic, when hunting and gathering were the only ways that people had yet invented for getting their food. This is the fallacy that taw is talking about when he says:
To which stcredzero replied by quoting:
And so on.