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The descendants of bronze-age kings are surely more likely to be today's elite politicians than today's homeless people.
by pocksuppet 3mo ago
The descendants of bronze-age kings are surely more likely to be today's elite politicians than today's homeless people.
- JohnMakin 3mo agoWhat is your evidence to support that? there is no 1:1 comparison here. The groups that likely survived these collapses were largely nomadic or at the fringes of society, used to sustaining themselves without the support of the existing power structures.
- alex0015 3mo agoAt that time distance from now, we're essentially all related to anyone who reproduced back then. http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureAncestorsPressRelease.html http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/Nature...
- 4gotunameagain 3mo ago> Chang established the basis of this research in a previous publication with an intentionally simplified model that ignored such complexities as geography and migration This seems like a very impactful simplification. Especially given the relative limited mobility of peoples up until very recently.