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I wasn't really thinking about single men destabilizing a society. Just an idea that mixing genes up more in children may be good for that society, and that any

by rjsw 6y ago

I wasn't really thinking about single men destabilizing a society. Just an idea that mixing genes up more in children may be good for that society, and that anything that reduces this mixing may be unhelpful to a society. I see both monogamy and preventing cosanguinity as examples of actions that could increase this mixing.

autosharp 6y ago
How does monogamy increase the mixing of genes? Surely polyamory (everyone having multiple partners, not just men) mixes genes more? And doesn't monogamy also reduce the pressure of natural selection?
- rjsw 6y ago
  I'm suggesting that monogamy increases mixing compared to the alternative types of society that have been tried, in particular to ones where only high status males have children. Maybe we do need to move to adopt polyamory, the evidence from online dating suggests we are reverting instead to default primate behaviour.
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