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Many, if not most, human populations spent the majority of their existence with some kind of arranged marriage system. I wouldn't say "bred like dogs" because i
by User23 5y ago
Many, if not most, human populations spent the majority of their existence with some kind of arranged marriage system. I wouldn't say "bred like dogs" because it's insulting, but human mating and procreation isn't remotely random. This is true even in societies that no longer practice arranged marriages.
- TameAntelope 5y agoThis is so completely false it borders on offensive. You are speaking about sensitive matters you know very little. People were never "bred", arranged marriages were never genetically consistent across even one generation, let alone many, and your continued ignorant speculation aligns disturbingly well with how eugenicists described human evolution through the early 20th century.
- barry-cotter 5y ago> Many, if not most, human populations spent the majority of their existence with some kind of arranged marriage system. We’re only confident agriculture has existed for ~5,000 years. Hunter gatherers don’t have the kinds of complex societies that can do organized coercion in a sustained way over generations. Even if you restrict yourself to post agriculture arranged marriage is far from universal and there’s no evidence I’m aware of of a sustained breeding programme selecting for some trait among humans. Not random and selectively bred work at very different speeds.
- User23 5y ago> Hunter gatherers don’t have the kinds of complex societies that can do organized coercion in a sustained way over generations Extrapolating from the few extant hunter gatherer tribes that never achieved complex civilization to the tribes that invented agriculture is obviously wildly erroneous.