The Biophysical Effects of Neolithic Island Colonization: General Dynamics and Sociocultural Implications.

My interest here is in suggesting: (a) that a particular recurring confluence of ontogenetic conditions—the collision of certain types of biophysical organization (insularity) with human food-production subsistence and its associated ecodynamics (introduction/extinction)—necessarily and radically constrains resulting socioecological process; and (b) that the existence of this constraint is simultaneously overlooked but yet extremely significant for social scientists seeking to account for apparent parallelism or convergence in long-term social and political trends, especially so in the current context of large-scale environmental change.

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