No, you’re completely right—omeganaut is confused about what constitutes the “ancestral environment” here. For most examples of “ancient” or “primitive” peoples that come to mind, there’s a simple test: if they performed agriculture, horticulture or pastoralism as a primary way of life within the last 10,000 years, they’re within in our FOOM period, and even if they didn’t start out with it, the odds are extremely good that contact, cultural diffusion or conquest have moved them into orbit around the same basic attractor.
We have been exposed to radically different selection pressures after the advent of agriculture than we where prior to it. Change has thus probably been rather rapid in the past 10 000 years.
No, you’re completely right—omeganaut is confused about what constitutes the “ancestral environment” here. For most examples of “ancient” or “primitive” peoples that come to mind, there’s a simple test: if they performed agriculture, horticulture or pastoralism as a primary way of life within the last 10,000 years, they’re within in our FOOM period, and even if they didn’t start out with it, the odds are extremely good that contact, cultural diffusion or conquest have moved them into orbit around the same basic attractor.
We have been exposed to radically different selection pressures after the advent of agriculture than we where prior to it. Change has thus probably been rather rapid in the past 10 000 years.