tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post5782760231609617663..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Child death and demographic change (and evolutionary change)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-3897526501305669312011-09-04T19:46:28.298+01:002011-09-04T19:46:28.298+01:00"any successful society eliminates most of it..."any successful society eliminates most of its natural selection controls, which then initiate a death cycle as the less intelligent outbreed the smarter and overwhelm them."<br /><br />Are there any good histories written within this framework? For Assyria, Rome, or Britain, etc?FredRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35047845511465494932011-05-05T12:40:28.141+01:002011-05-05T12:40:28.141+01:00If the elite remained orthodoxly religious this wo...If the elite remained orthodoxly religious this would not happen; but they choose not to.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11742553414401565052011-05-05T11:06:10.789+01:002011-05-05T11:06:10.789+01:00Whatever the mechanism, the pattern is roughly as ...Whatever the mechanism, the pattern is roughly as Plato described it: any successful society eliminates most of its natural selection controls, which then initiate a death cycle as the less intelligent outbreed the smarter and overwhelm them.<br /><br />We are victims of our own success!Brett Stevenshttp://www.amerika.org/noreply@blogger.com