inter-group competition ⁽²⁾

Preamble In ONE I discussed some of my reading of Joseph Henrich’s books, and this morning I am riffing within the same books on the idea of the individual as a social institution. Or at least the interplay between the acknowledgment and the possibility of the individual as social institution. This is some more exploratory & metaphoric work on the implication…

This avenue of reading began like my discovery of the creator or promoter of the umbrella term ‘Man the hunter’ in two ways. It was a family hand-me down book and it was the writer’s second book. See Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative (substack.com). In Joseph Henrich’s case the second book has made a bigger splash than the first, and…