Middle Woodland: the Hopewell culture

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The example you gave is understandable, concise, makes sense and seems an acceptable theory.

But I don't see why the theory (if that is the actual theory) should be limited to color blindness. What about other vision defects such as myopia and astigmatism et al?

And what’s does all this have to do with autism as some “genetic advantage?”

There will always be “weird” people born. Some will have the potential to do great things because of this “weirdness.” “Weirdness,” if channeled properly, can provide a person with a unique perspective on things.

Since the moderator and rule of the forum do not allow links to locked threads, I would suggest you to search and go through my previous postings in the forum, and you shall find that I indeed have provided all the detailed explanations. This is not a new thread. I've been talking about these things for over one year, now. Not my choice, but the moderator somehow has decided to remove my the links that I have provided and brand them as SELF PROMOTING. I don't understand the rationale, but there you have it. Not my fault. Not my problem.

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It's funny that I find anthropologists that use almost identical wordings that I have used. For instance, regarding taxes, I found this one:

https://stchas.instructure.com/courses/7868/pages/unit-3-lecture-prehistory-begins-stone-age-stories
... Though she doesn’t use these words, I’ve always thought of this as the “mafia model.” Think of prehistoric henchmen, extracting resources as protection money (perhaps the world’s first “taxes”) from a group of people in a certain region. Suddenly people now have need of a food surplus, to both feed their family and pay off the gang demanding payment, and they begin to farm to produce that surplus.

Ha. There you go. I just have to laugh. Life is fun.

You know full well that I wouldn't click any links even if you provided them.

And you know full well that I am not going go through your whole history of posts on WP.

And that's because you know full well that that is not my job. you're the one making an assertion. So its your job to make it clear what it is that your assertion is.

So just state it already. In a nutshell what is this thing you're trying to say?

in this post it sure looks like you have just conceded that you can't make your assertion clear. Which implies that this theory of your's is NOT clear even in your own head.

Evolution, man. You have to understand what evolution is all about. Darwin explained it very well, and phrase it very nicely into the term "Natural Selection." That is a very nice way of saying some organisms are killed by other organisms (or by the environment.) Evolution is what makes us different from bananas, even though we share the same ancestors. After the invention of the bow and arrow, there are only two major external causes that killed human clans:

(a) other human clans, and
(b) new diseases.

The square-root law applies only to case (a), because it assumes that clans are eliminated by other clans. You obviously have not read the article that I have provided so many times. But that's alright. Basically, (a) color blindness, (b) autism, (c) schizophrenia, and (d) Down syndrome, all have contributed to combat survival advantages of human clans. I have provided detailed explanations to all these things, it's all in my old postings on Wrong Planet, and summarized in the PDF article in the link that I have provided but that the forum moderator has removed. Not my fault. Not my problem.

This is just for completeness. I found on YouTube some talks by Robin Dunbar himself on Dunbar's Number. Here is one.


And here are some examples he gave on human group sizes that come close to the 150 figure. Notice in particular the size of "Hunter-Gatherer communities" is quoted at 148.


The paper "Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans" can be found on ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robin_Dunbar/publication/235357146_Co-Evolution_of_Neocortex_Size_Group_Size_and_Language_in_Humans/links/54b7c58e0cf2c27adc47161b/Co-Evolution-of-Neocortex-Size-Group-Size-and-Language-in-Humans.pdf