The New Scientist explains why the Neanderthals died out, and we are thus spared beetle brows and large jaws: free trade.
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/3416/oh-so-thats-why/
Oh so that’s why
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The Neanderthals did not really die out! They are alive and well and living as neoconservatives!
hahahahahah. That post must have taken quite a lot of thought and time for you to produce.
Who would have thought that the main evolutionary advantage for H. Sapiens was to be free trade economics?
The free modifier is redundant. Just trade.
This would make even more sense if one of the Cro Magnon’s trade goods was Neanderthal skins. Alas, Cro Magnon never established a set of ownership rights in the Neanderthal population, and there were inadequate incentives to manage the Neanderthal herds. An early example of the tragedy of the commons at work.
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