me on what i think must've been recent human evolution in euros during medieval period (https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/some-very-random-thoughts-on-the-reformation/#comment-130150 …):pic.twitter.com/Ij23oBkHNZ
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.@mathvsoldage yup! i've blogged about wergeld quite a bit. what's especially interesting (imo) is that in the 900s, in england anyway...
.@mathvsoldage ...there was a shift from wergeld going to kin to wergeld going to a man's *guild*: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/the-importance-of-the-kindred-in-anglo-saxon-society/ … ...
.@mathvsoldage ...representing the shift from "clannishness" to non-clannishness at least beginning around this time.
@hbdchick @mathvsoldage All behavioral traits are *partially* heritable. Sudden rise in individualism from Christian ideology of the soul.
@NickSzabo4 then why don't we see the same individualism in eastern europe? @mathvsoldage
@hbdchick @mathvsoldage Genetics of stationary pastoralism may indirectly explain NW/SE gradient but doesn't explain sudden change.
@hbdchick @mathvsoldage What happens suddenly is this Christian thing called conversion.
.@NickSzabo4 nearly all of europe is christian, yet northwest different from east and south: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/big-summary-post-on-the-hajnal-line/ … @mathvsoldage
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