The Despotic Imperative

Despotic partner choice puts helpers under pressure?

The authors of the target paper (Bergmüller et al., 2007) try o bring order into the many forms ‘cooperation’ takes in the atural world by designing a decision tree, most branches of hich have endpoints well known from the cooperation literaure. The advantage of this exercise is that it helps to classify atural phenomena into the correct pigeonhole and relate it to ther natural phenomena of the...

The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive Stat

Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very di↵erent types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states which dominate civil society. Yet there are others which are locked into an ongoing competition with civi...

The natural holistic imperative.

Biodiversity is nature's expression of the principle of holism. This 'natural holistic imperative' is manifested in all aspects of the environment. While environmental health originated through a concern for protecting humans from environmental risks, it is now concerned with protecting the environment from the activities of humans. In order to protect the health of humans, there is a need to b...

The territorial imperative.

The relentless therapeutic imperative.

many helpful comments; and the Thai teachers and students who received us with such great friendliness. We also thank Ronald Frankenberg for supervision of AW's fieldwork and Kimberly Rosegger for help with the manuscript. Contributors and sources: Both authors have a German medical background and currently teach anatomy to medical students. This paper arose from AW's MSc dissertation in medica...