Darwinian Historical Materialism
Production, Reproduction, and Warfare in Human History
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel works of nature."
Charles Darwin
About Me
I am a retired teacher. As well as having degrees in History and Politics and in Social Anthropology, I have carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Peninsular Malaysia. Occasionally, I try to play jazz guitar, and on very rare occasions I might even succeed. I tweet at PaulNolandhm.
Outlines
Numbers depend primarily on the means of subsistence, and this depends partly on the physical nature of the country, but in a much higher degree on the arts which are there practised. Charles Darwin
A brief outline and defence of the synthesis of natural selection and historical materialism that I call Darwinian historical materialism. I then apply this theory to illuminate some key trends and transitions of human history.
Histories
Heaven and Earth are not ruthful; To them, the Ten Thousand things are but as straw dogs. Lao Tse
Considerations
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Samuel Johnson
Blog
When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. John Stuart Mill
Contact Me
- Cleveland, England, United Kingdom