JanetK comments on Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution - Less Wrong

7 Post author: WrongBot 23 July 2010 05:28AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (153)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: JanetK 23 July 2010 07:58:21PM 1 point [-]

Why do you separate natural disasters from possible causes of famine?

Comment author: WrongBot 23 July 2010 08:41:51PM 0 points [-]

Because Malthus's theory doesn't (so far as I'm aware) discuss discontinuous decreases in the available food supply.

But you are right that much of the devastation wrought by natural disasters is due to a shrunken food supply.