"In 1965, John Hajnal discovered it divides Europe into two areas characterized by different levels of nuptiality." that sounds a lot like sexual selection.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NishikiPrestige
if the selection of hereditary traits is what you're looking for -he, however, wasn't.
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Replying to @adornofthagn @NishikiPrestige
well, I definitely don't know what he was looking for, but explanation for the pattern is really something to be interested in.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NishikiPrestige
oh certainly, but what the theory actually seems to suggest is that political liberalism and the marriage pattern form a self-reinforcing mechanism without the explanatory need for a hereditary middle man, and more importantly one that works immediately through abstract geography
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Replying to @adornofthagn @NishikiPrestige
what does that mechanism looks like?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NishikiPrestige
now THAT is a very good question, all I can tell is that it changes poles once they cross a line that runs through their country
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the ordinary reading of hajnal would be that exogamy and openness go very well together and that once they're institutionalized people adapt to them such that any genetic peculiarity is a result rather than a causal factor -but since german institutions left with the germans...
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Replying to @adornofthagn @NishikiPrestige
this is a very good reason why exogamy would go well with openness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection … also explain why it left with the Germans.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NishikiPrestige
but that's the thing: it didn't leave with the germans
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here's a map of polish railways, their density in the west a leftover from german rule. what I'm saying is that trains cause liberalism. this is my hypothesispic.twitter.com/aoLrKOGZer
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I don't know how ironic you're being here but...... there'd be nothing wrong with that theory
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I'm only being slighty ironic, and not at all if you replace 'trains' with [waves hand in the direction of the western half of the map] 'that uhh general sort of thing'
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