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.
A brief outline of a synthesis between Darwinian natural selection and historical materialism that, I argue, is the key to understanding the long-term tendencies and large-scale patterns of human history.