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> 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 e
by 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.