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And manuscript updates and editing is underway officially as of today.
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Warmth,
Gabriel
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Hi, Gabriel,
What a marvelous text you have put together, full of brilliant transdisciplinary insights!
I just have a couple of minor but important corrections to suggest.
You mention a couple of times that our ancestors were tribes. Tribes are a different social organization from bands. Small-band foragers have no possessions and do not domesticate/enslave plants or animals. They are egalitarian and include kin and non-kin. Their kinship is with everything encountered (like you and Fluffy). This is our 99%. Tribes get possessive with cultivation or domestication and are not egalitarian. They get into narrow minded kinship. They are part of the 1%, which includes chiefdoms and states.
Places to change the language are on the bottom of p. 29, p. 60 (where you say they are kin, but they are not necessarily kin), and p. 62.
All blessings to you and your work!
Darcia