Toilets. We've got flush toilets. I never cease to be grateful for this. Civilization is awesome.
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Does high IQ correlate negatively with promiscuous and violence? If so, then it is probably high average IQ populations that caused those things.
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High IQ is the result of eliminating polygamy and violence. Polygamy selects for high-T violent conquest charismatics. Monogamy creates space for nerdy high-IQ types to reproduce and participate in the gene pool.
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"Monogamy creates space for nerdy high-IQ types to reproduce and participate in the gene pool." Nope, I'm sure you mean ALCOHOL.
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Indoor plumbing and hot water are pretty awesome too.
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Children in polygamous households tend to be messed up.....and great hostility between half siblings. I lived with 2 half sisters once. Painful.
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I'm yet to see any hard evidence that monogamy caused the technological progress of the last few hundred years.
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Caused? Probably not. Allowed, almost certainly. It's hard to get productive work done when a society is dealing with roving bands of surplus males.
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Those incels, nerds, are the tech innovators though..
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Real innovators generally have girlfriends.
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Can you show a causal connection?
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I have noticed that peoples in a nomadic phase and a high male 'burn rate' have polygamy e.g. Israelites, Mormons, Arabs, Mongols. Jews and Mormons have certainly abandoned polygamy after they settled.
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Actually the romans forced monogamy by law, then christian church picked this up roman pagan value.
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In reproductiv capacity however? Repopulate the world, flood you neighbours with your offspring, secure your Y cromoson line, build a lastning hierartical dynasty = go polygamous. Build prosperity, peace, health and liberty = go monogamous.
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Just redefine good outcomes and voilà, polygamy and polyamory look salutary.
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Diversity as in mixing people of different cultures/races creates the least successfull culture not the most. For a number of reasons the most obvious being the inefficiency of communication because of friction between competing beliefs, values, ethics, ideals, standards etc
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Evolutionary anthropologist here. Few things are "universal" about marriage, and the social enforcement of monogamy ain't one of them
See e.g. the distribution of marriage systems across the ethnographic record