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Centuries of Genghis Khan style "submit or perish" probably has a certain "domesticating" effect on a population. The more rebellious ones don't last long in th
by HPsquared 3y ago
Centuries of Genghis Khan style "submit or perish" probably has a certain "domesticating" effect on a population. The more rebellious ones don't last long in that environment.
- alephnerd 3y agoThe region my family is from was directly ruled by "submit or perish" types (it was historically common in the marginal regions of Inner Asia). Plenty of rebellions, peasant revolts, and clan feuds have happened over the centuries. Also, what you described is basically psudeoscience and veers very closely to eugenics (the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable)
- myth_drannon 3y agoHe described Homo Soveticus.
- NotSuspicious 3y agoIgnoring whether or not this specific situation is true, describing how different environments select for different traits is not pseudoscience; it's the foundation of evolution.
- ilkke 3y agoAre you suggesting that we should disregard if this specific situation is true, but that it is possible that some populations are genetically evolved to be more servile?
- HPsquared 3y agoCould be genes, or memes, or both (or neither).