| It's not one example, there's plenty. If you want another, Aborigines hunted down everything larger than a kangaroo to extinction. Aboriginal stories largely say that it's Rainbow Serpent that brings in babies. This more or less matches the pattern of constant hunger that made women infertile outside of a small window around the rain season. It's understood that the rest of the world figured out the link from observing domestic animals, something absent in Australia of the time. There are multiple papers trying to tackle this non-understanding, including ridiculous propositions that they all kinda know, but "repress" the knowledge. >If you're on an island, having an uncapped population is a recipe for disaster. Having to kill your own children is disaster. >Or at least that it is "bad" or "evil" that humans could ever live in a situation where they can't just consume more andore resources Yes, it's very much desirable that nobody is hungry, sick, or murdered. Yes, learning to get more resources from what you have is also very much desirable. And yes, it's bad and evil if instead people kill babies and murder each other over food like animals. Before you ask, yes there are plenty of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories depicting someone stealing food and getting killed. And there's no counterpart to the Genesis myth that would say that X shagged B and they had a child. |