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Interesting theory! I would be interested in seeing it tested by looking at changes in political ideology after injuries and diseases that reduce evolutionary fitness.

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This is excellent. I’ve been looking for an alternative to Moral Foundations Theory. Thus far everything else I had come across had severe limitations.

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Might cause/effect be reversed?

Could efficient hunters have greater spatial orientation?

Could efficient gatherers possess greater ability for long-term planning?

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Did -- and do -- those folk, recognizing the potential for protecting their off-spring and community, naturally gravitate toward forming productive relationships... based on mutual benefits?

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Absolutely fascinating stuff this. But it would be good to overlay this HG/fitness/weakness theorem with another cross current: a civilisational-historical perspective. How, in other words, civilisations (including our Western Liberalism one) rise/thrive/decay and fall (as they all do eventually) and how the HG/fitness theorem might help to explain this trajectory.

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I think my model of things is better:

https://eharding.substack.com/p/the-seven-body-composition-types

Conservatives exhibit higher levels of health, -nope (at least, not in the US post-1996).

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