CounterIntuitive

Recently I’ve encountered two counterintuitive, if not outright heretical, arguments about history and culture.
The first belongs to New Mexico’s own Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill, both biologists, who have marshaled evidence to support their theory that culture, including political culture, is a function of the disease pathogens infesting your particular neighborhood. If you have high levels of malaria, dengue, typhus, T.B., etc., then your culture becomes increasingly wary of outsiders w...