Analysis of DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture
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#2Makes perfect sense to me. If you look at our culture now there is always that one male all the females in a group tend to go for.
Same for males there's always that 1 mega hotie you want to meet.
The only difference is even average females can have any guy they want while the same doesn't apply to guys.
The advent of agriculture gave females the ability to support their children more easily without the help of males and the more desirable males could have more offspring with so much food available.
Basically less females had to settle for second best to have offspring.
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#3Just started reading Harari's brief history of humankind and this gem perfectly fits in the rather unsettling story of our genetic pool. It is no longer the natural environment setting the conditions for who's fit to survive/chosen for reproduction but the present human culture which in turn is just the result of the previous.
If I had to choose an algorithm as an analogy, I'd say it is a recursion waiting for stack overflow. :)
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#4The invention of monogamy is what brought about the 4-5 female to male reproduction ratio.
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#5Makes perfect sense to me. If you look at our culture now there is always that one male all the females in a group tend to go for. Same for males there's always that 1 mega hotie you want to meet. The only difference is even average females can have any guy they want while the same doesn't apply to guys. The advent of agriculture gave females the ability to support their children more easily without the help of males…
> Same for males there's always that 1 mega hotie you want to meet.
> The only difference is even average females can have any guy they want while the same doesn't apply to guys.
I'd rather say that the major difference is that while there is no (or very little) opportunity cost for a male that mates with the top woman and the next 100 women as well, there is a big opportunity cost for a female regardless of which male she chooses, so she is much more motivated to choose the top male.
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#8Fascinating stuff, I'd like to know more.
Does anyone know a better source?
I found the original article but sadly not freely available. This psmag.com article is thin and the graph of the data is so small I can't read much off of it. Google couldn't find any larger versions of the graph.
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#9Just started reading Harari's brief history of humankind and this gem perfectly fits in the rather unsettling story of our genetic pool. It is no longer the natural environment setting the conditions for who's fit to survive/chosen for reproduction but the present human culture which in turn is just the result of the previous. If I had to choose an algorithm as an analogy, I'd say it is a recursion waiting for stack…
We are a very social species, the culture we create is our natural environment.
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#10This is not my research area. However, I can't help but the results seem to radical to me. The dip in male diversity seems far too synchronized among so many different regions / cultures. Are there examples in recorded history of sudden reductions in male diversity that lasted for multiple generations?