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Apr 10·edited Apr 10Liked by The Living Fossils

GM, dr. Kurzban. Great job as usual, but i have aquestion.

I don't get why you say "menu taboo" are "choice free": choosing a food instead of another is quite an important problem for an individual.

E.g. a nomad herder depends on his herd's milk to survive (e.g. Fulani children drink 5 liter a day only untill 3 y.o.) so the Aryan developed the taboo about cow slaughtering; pigs in hot climate suffers a lot of tapeworm, so semitic people developed the pork taboo.

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Maybe you should appear in The Dissenter... (the podcast)

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