Summary of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's A Short History of Man

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The start of human history is 50,000 years ago, when behaviorally modern man had evolved into anatomically modern man. This is an eminently reasonable starting point, as humans at this time were still inept at hunting and unable to travel far. But around 50,000 years ago, humans began to develop a more advanced toolkit.
#2 Human coordination was achieved via language, which allowed knowledge to be transmitted to distant places and times and communicated about. With language, humans could also communicate about matters far away in time and place.
#3 The life of hunter-gatherers was initially good, but the challenge of population growth was inevitable. People could try to prevent such pressure from emerging by limiting the number of pregnancies, but that did not solve the problem.
#4 The first option, fighting, was not as bad as it sounds. Primitive man was far more warlike than contemporary man, and they had a high mortality rate from unnatural causes.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397809
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The start of human history is 50,000 years ago, when behaviorally modern man had evolved into anatomically modern man. This is an eminently reasonable starting point, as humans at this time were still inept at hunting and unable to travel far. But around 50,000 years ago, humans began to develop a more advanced toolkit.

#2

Human coordination was achieved via language, which allowed knowledge to be transmitted to distant places and times and communicated about. With language, humans could also communicate about matters far away in time and place.

#3

The life of hunter-gatherers was initially good, but the challenge of population growth was inevitable. People could try to prevent such pressure from emerging by limiting the number of pregnancies, but that did not solve the problem.

#4

The first option, fighting, was not as bad as it sounds. Primitive man was far more warlike than contemporary man, and they had a high mortality rate from unnatural causes.

#5

The second option available to deal with the problem of excess population was migration. While not costless, migration must have appeared as the less costly option as long as some open frontier existed.

#6

The migration of humans from Africa to Europe and Asia occurred around 50,000 years ago. About 150 people crossed the Red Sea at the Gate of Grief, and began migrating eastward. They stayed in tropical climate zones they were used to, and didn’t adapt to the new climates.

#7

The process of migration was always the same: a group invaded some territory, population pressure mounted, some people stayed put, a subgroup moved further on, generation after generation, along the coastline, following rivers and game.

#8

The process of the proliferation of languages followed a predictable pattern. First, with the spread of humans around the world as hunters and gatherers, a successively increasing number of different languages emerged.