Darwin & a Theory of Affluence

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Not quite sure if you mean a dork for reading it, or a dork for not reading all of it...

...which I suppose means I'll have to gird my loins and poke my bifocals up on my nose... if I'm coordinated I can do both at once... and start reading.

[bluecuracao]

What was being inherited, in his view, was not greater intelligence — being a hunter in a foraging society requires considerably greater skill than the repetitive actions of an agricultural laborer. Rather, it was “a repertoire of skills and dispositions that were very different from those of the pre-agrarian world.”

Hmmm...

Sounds like Clark may not understand the complexity of developing agriculture (or blew it off, to be controversial). But in terms of a different (not greater) skill set and the disposition of a hunter mentality, I can see what he's getting at.