Ok, good point, we've definitely had selection at times for anti-tribal societies, presumably because they were able to unite larger groups,
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have more trade, and get more advanced tech. Hence European anti-tribalism. This has reversed in recent decades.
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What has changed is that most children live to adulthood, because of abundant resources. Adaptations of the past now maladaptive.
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The West's anti-tribalism isn't a maladaptive strategy. Not having kids is a maladaptive strategy.
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Anti-tribalism + modern transportation and communication tech is also maladaptive. It's much better to be anti-tribal if the neighboring
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village isn't actually that different from you.
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Not necessarily. The native women who had sex with Spanish men in Tenochtitlan have descendants bc the Spanish were resistant to smallpox.
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Sure, and in general if your options are extermination or having offspring with the conquerors, take the latter.
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Right. Their tribe, society and race were pretty much eliminated by disease/conquest. But most of their genes reproduced just fine.
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And in that situation, any gene that made them less "tribal" would be selected for.
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[insert comment about women welcoming conquerors with open legs]
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Right, and you see that in the modern West too. What is good for a society or civilization is not necessarily the best repro. strategy.
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That's why eugenics is necessary if we want to have a prosperous civilization for a long time.
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