Brief Review: Beyond Civilization, Danial Quinn

This book compliments his Ishmael series, which is urgently recommended reading for any one looking at this blog. What Danial succeeded in showing in the Ishmael books, he tries to flat out say in Beyond Civilization. BC includes many important distinctions and thought experiments that bring the earlier works into focus, and examples of tribal life that are workable but not entirely fleshed out. More then anything BC is written to clear up misconceptions that Quinn has encountered about Ishmael. If you loved Ishmael, give it a go, if you didn't love Ishmael you are unlikely to like BC, and if you haven't read Ishmael you should give it a go first.