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Your comment is phrased as if antisocial traits don't already confer greater reproductive success. http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138%2814%2900077-4/a
by sbierwagen 9y ago
Your comment is phrased as if antisocial traits don't already confer greater reproductive success.
http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138%2814%2900077-4/abstract http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138%2814%2900077-4/a...
>Convicted criminal offenders had more children than individuals never convicted of a criminal offense. Criminal offenders also had more reproductive partners, were less often married, more likely to get remarried if ever married, and had more often contracted a sexually transmitted disease than non-offenders. Importantly, the increased reproductive success of criminals was explained by a fertility increase from having children with several different partners.
- dontreact 9y agoI wonder if there is a lower chance of success for children with absent fathers which offsets this. I would be surprised if there wasn't, given the long term trend of societies becoming more civil and less violent on average.