![]() Long before I became interested in Evolutionary Psychology, history was my passion. Most revolutions in history are forager revolutions and the reasons will become clear throughout this book. History isn’t random, but follows causality and there are certain recurring patterns that we will be able to identify. By picking apart the evolutionary temperament it becomes possible to see history as governed by laws, to some extent. For each culture in history the specific mix of temperaments constituted its “character” and determined the trajectory of its future. Even if many of us are mixed foragers, farmers and pastoralists, very often one type is dominant due to a process called assortative mating, ie the “fiery” pastoralist types prefer to find a partner with a similar temperament and so do the “earthly” farmer and the “airy” forager types. None of us really are, the past 10.000 years left significant evolutionary traces in our minds. Most evolutionary psychologists still have the assumption that we are basically paleolithic foragers. Many others doubted that our recent “work environments” could have resulted in different types, when our ancestors had been foragers for more than 95% of the past 200.000 years. ![]() ![]() Many found the idea very intuitive and plausible and strongly identified with the evolutionary types. I had a lot of online feedback from people. In it I hypothesised that the usually four temperaments of common personality tests like the Myers-Briggs or Helen Fisher’s types have their evolutionary origin in our ancestral modes of subsistence: hunting-gathering, farming and herding. My research started out on similarities between gifted and ASD children and was titled The Hunter-Gatherer Neurotribe. Foragers, farmers and pastoralists is my third big book project.
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