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> None of this has to do with someone's sexual fitness, and everything to do with straightening out potentially complicated family inheritances. I think the re
by beedeebeedee 4y ago
> None of this has to do with someone's sexual fitness, and everything to do with straightening out potentially complicated family inheritances.
I think the research in this article points to a biological adaptation for handling this issue before the development of monasteries as a human institution. I.e., mice don't have monasteries
- Dalewyn 4y agoI am speaking strictly in regards to the human system of sending away children to become clergyman, which is a way of dealing with future inheritance problems regardless the sexual fitness of a given child. That is to say, the family picks a would-be inheritor and sends away all the others to hopefully prevent family feuds. I do not speak for mice and their culture, whatever it may be.