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Les Cargill Well, first I ran into that data in Steven Pinker, "The Blank Slate", but then read what Jared Diamond in "Collapse" and LeBlanc in "Constant Battles" had to say about the New Guinea Highlanders, from which the data was drawn from the activities of living tribe members.

The lifespan was not long, but they both report that 25% of the men die in battle. If you bring the analysis of the personality profile to historical events, like Xenophon's "Ten Thousand" or Alexander's army going thru Persia a generation later, what has long thot to have been exaggeration becomes understandable.

How did 1200 Greeks at Thermapoly stop 200,000 Persians?

With *betas*, not *alphas*. The FMRI brain scans show that when an alpha gets emotionally excited, his prefrontal lobe activity dramatically declines. Neurologist Ramachandran says they really do "see red" because without the higher processing of the primate brain, they are running on the reptilian, Corpus Collosum, which dont have the sophisticated color processing.

Thus it is, that Alexander taught the phalanxes to taunt in Persian how they were going to f*** their mothers, daughters, and wives (which they did indeed do), to get the Persians riled up. But betas *follow orders*. So, every 20 minutes, the captain blows a horn, and the men on the front ranks step back to be replaced. Alphas get riled up in the heat of battle, frenzied, and dont listen, so they dont step back, but hack away until.... their arm gets tired, at which point the fresh arm of a beta cuts them down.

Thus Xenophon reports the Greek Phalanx going thru the Persian ranks like a weedeater. So, from that time on, for another thousand years, the Persians hacked it out with the Greeks and Romans, yet never, over the course of that whole time, were they able to put together an obedient phalanx. They still cant. Look at the video of Chimps confront enemy alpha males, with their arms high in the air, jumping up and down, and hooting... just like the video we see at any Arab street demonstration.

The basic problem of Islam is that they've too many chiefs, and not enough Indians cause their alphas butchered all the betas. That didnt happen in Europe. The forested ecosystem provided refuges for betas and their families that you dont see in the deserts of the Mid East.

It didnt work in the jungle either, cause now we know how poor jungle soils are. The rich black earth of Europe, so long regarded as holy, provided several times as much food despite a short growing season. The winters also end lots of the bugs that eat Jungle gardens right to the ground.

"Life in a Medieval Village" was taken from the 12th century court records of an out-of-the way English midlands village. When the Abbot tried to raise taxes on the peasants, the peasants melted away into the forest... going on strike. That would not have worked in India, Iran, Egypt, et al. To some extent it also worked in China, and they also evolved a more humane way of dealing with people. They *had* to.