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Do you think we are done with the natural experiment of people moving into places with different systems or different cultures and finding out their own prospec
by tokenadult 12y ago
Do you think we are done with the natural experiment of people moving into places with different systems or different cultures and finding out their own prospects, or the prospects of their children, change?
- nooron 12y agoThank you for framing this in the way you did. There are so many ways to arrange human affairs. Some people thrive in certain environments and despair in others. Genetics plays a role in how we respond to different stimuli, but we're not finding out as many immutable facts of psychological character via genetics as your parent commenter thinks we do.
- _delirium 12y agoYou don't even necessarily have to move to find that, just move in time (granted, past a certain number of years that becomes impractical, given lifespans). It's particularly striking here in Scandinavia, which has had relatively stable genetics over an extended period, yet extremely variable societies resulting, with different traits rewarded or discouraged at different times. It was (to generalize) once a warrior culture, then a hierarchical aristocratic culture, and is now a peaceful egalitarian culture, all with roughly the same genes involved.