New paper finds that Chinese gentry scholars had 3x greater reproductive success than commoners. Supports Gregory Clark's "survival of the richest" theory http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/104040/ pic.twitter.com/z6n27Q7IKD
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So, in China fitness tracked status, due to polygyny by the mandarins. But in Europe the *middle class* had higher fitness, due to childlessness among the nobility, and nobles couldn't engage in polygyny. If so Church-imposed monogamy was a big deal in making Europe bourgeois
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Nobles couldn't engage in polygyny? They had huge numbers of illegitimate children.
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Yes, but how many survived?
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Or, would they have had more with polygamy?
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