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.
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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Not a lot of sophisticated mate selection going on there, though.
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Are you kidding? How did it escape your attention that the most important individual topic in human cognition, art and literature is mate selection?
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