From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 04:46:49 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>Ron writes
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>>[Lee writes]
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>>>I...
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>uch more into fences, and didn't even have porches.
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>What is germane to this discussion is which kind of life is more of
>an ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy). If a nation or a tribe or
>just a group of people is to have a group identity that lasts longer
>than a decade or two, or that outlasts the individual life times of
>its members, then I do not believe that what you call the "northern"
>or I'd call the more modern structures are ESS's. That is one reason
>why poorer peoples from around the world are demographically replacing
>more "modern" ones.
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>Lee
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Possibly. But throughout history areas with dense populations have not
replaced, but depended on immigration. And areas with low density
population have been net exporters of population. This holds with many
different social systems, cultures, limits to sanitation, etc.
So there may be something more basic going on. (It would be interesting
if I knew the distribution of China's population replacement ratios.
But from what I've heard [newspaper factoids] it's again the country
population that is growing and the city population that is declining.)
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