Sequential Action Causation & Sequential Action Graphs

Sequential action is used when transitivity for causality cannot be guaranteed. In the example below, you can also see an example of layering, if you click on the top node.
Important in this example was to make clear what biology is and what culture is, and where the boundaries are.

A day in the life of hunter-gatherers

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Disclaimer

These examples of enlightening directed analytic graphs only serve to illustrate the possibilities of the concept.

The EDAG about the life of hunter gatherers is the result of quite long and thorough text research by the toolmaker. But he is not really an expert in all these different fields. In fact, the concept is only really workable if there is an independent interdisciplinary team working on, and overseeing, the consistency, completeness and precision of the causal relationships and action sequences with their underlying explanations.