few years ago I reviewed Joe Heinrich’s Secret Of Our Success , and included a passage about divination. Hunter-gatherers (it claimed) benefited from divination methods as a randomization device, to ensure they didn’t keep overhunting the same area, or move in predictable patterns that game animals could learn. At the time this blew my mind, but here are some other anthropologists saying it’s “wrong on many essential counts” 📰 Links for July