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>Recently I had an interesting thought that basically people did almost the same to themselves spontaneously through culture. I think this already well known i
by dennis_jeeves2 2y ago
>Recently I had an interesting thought that basically people did almost the same to themselves spontaneously through culture.
I think this already well known in evolutionary biology circles though not through culture.
I don't recollect but it was most likely Robin Dunbar who said it, people ganging together to kill of the most annoying/bullying/maladjusted members.
- scotty79 2y agoIt's not really about killing maladapted. In each generation of humans more than 10% of them don't pass their genes to next generation. From the point of view of evolution it is as if they got killed young. Mate selection is way stronger mechanism of evolution then plain survival.
- dennis_jeeves2 2y ago>It's not really about killing maladapted. I'm sure I did not misunderstand Robin Dunbar, He actually said homicides were common. If a bunch of people hated someone they ganged up and killed him/her, leading to humans being relatively more neotenistic than other primates. (I used maladapted in a very loose way: especially being maladapted socially, we are not talking about being maladapted phicially and other ways)