| Rab said:
Tribes don't necessarily live with a Hunter Gather life style, so they are not same thing Our genetic history is the most important limiting factor on Human happiness, we ignore it at our own risk, we would never do this for any other animal species we wanted to preserve in it's happiest state, we are no different We are talking about humans, so other animal behaviour is best suited to them not us, Human culture has historically been one of mostly equal sharing of resources up until the advent of agriculture when the differences in individual resources and sharing started to vary by magnitudes from the hunter gatherer
As for social development, most people have had little influence since agriculture once a few started to control most of the resources, most Humans then lost power in relation to a few resource rich Humans who are the ones that have shaped society from then on to suit their resource gathering activities and control |
While more tribes originated after the advent of farming, there existed tribes that found nutrition through hunting and gathering. This is if you define a tribe as a coalition of bands. Regardless, my point stands even more strongly with the concept of bands, which were even less inclusive than tribes.
With so many genes affecting human behavior, with different environmental initial conditions, it is quite ridiculous to attribute one way of living as "genetically" human, natural, or instinctual. Many genes express multiple phenotypes and can suit different environments. Social structures (memes) are just reflections of our genes.
For an example of how society can affect our behaviors,
@ Bolded, You say that as if there have been one people since the mesolithic. It doesn't stand in today's world though. ALL humans in civilizations accumulate wealth and trade to survive.
