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hn_throwaway_99yesterday at 1:09 PM1 replyview on HN

> the vast majority of human life experience being in nomadic hunter-gathering, villages, farmland, and walled city-states.

in which they lived in families, extended families and tribes as the primary units. I didn't understand your argument at all.


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seanclaytonyesterday at 1:49 PM

The nuclear family lived separate from the extended family. In separate cities. This is a new thing. You lived with your clan in history, not apart. The nuclear family is completely separated physically from their extended families, even across village lines.

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