It is disturbing to realize that all humans alive today are the direct descendants of the most successful committers of murder, enslavement, rape and genocide, and all historical injustice is just the documented tail end of success and failure in primate evolutionary competition.
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I might be completely off base but my understanding was that agriculture and society *centralised* breeding opportunities, meaning that the "owners" were ultra successful and the worker males disproportionately unsuccessful.
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Not really, because until quite recently, the success of the aristocracy depended on the toils of a much larger general population that had to work on the fields, fight wars and so on. Good and obedient serfs had to raise a lot of children to keep the children of the courts fed.
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Those who had the luxury of choosing a partner for reproduction had *very* limited choice. Elites married other elites, often sight unseen, and everybody else married people who were eligible in their immediate environment.
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