my brain is breaking...I think early age at menarche is an elite trait in europe & that euro elites are r-selected compared to peasants o.0
A complex society develops an elite whose offspring have very high rates of survival - like being in a constant state of range expansion.
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Most descendants of elites end up outside the elite, without any extra resources - they have to go back to slow life histories.
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But gene flow is one way - effective elite isolation. Genes to deal with the harmful effects of extra food and fast life history can appear.
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