primmie dorks: in hunter gatherer tribes, there is no need
for laws or rules of any kind! within such small groups, societies
function purely on the basis of individualist impulses
actual hunter gatherer societies: [strict rule against eating food you killed yourself]own-kill prohibitions are an interesting case actually because they only make sense when you analyze society in terms of groups instead of just in terms of collections of individuals- on an individual level, such prohibitions make no sense, they make people to rely on others even when they don’t really need to, but, by doing so, they create more cohesive social groups
on an individual level, a person who abstains from eating their own kill will be out-competed by an individual who follows no such rules, but on a group level, a group which coheres together strongly because of such prohibitions will out-compete a community which is less tightly bound together. in that context, the emergence of own-kill prohibitions makes a lot of sense.
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