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@KirkegaardEmil And wouldn’t the self-selection just be variability?

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@KirkegaardEmil How would this jive with your own meta-analysis showing a very small difference? Surely the vibe-coded online test is missing something that most published research isn’t?

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@adolfmaxxing That men form hierarchal coalitions and that women are chaos agents that upset these coalitions is just classical premodern patriarchy. Bog standard stuff. Only WEIRDs have constructed a bizarre inverse of it.

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@adolfmaxxing Because they are less capable of violence.

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@hemabe @cremieuxrecueil This is false.

https://t.co/iCZPw7fIYZ

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@HaeckelGroyper That’s because polygyny isn’t sustainable at all very large scale in a normal equilibrium. It’s something reserved for a small slice of high status men even in societies where it’s common.

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@Logo_Daedalus This would be clear if you had actually read the anthropology on this.

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@Logo_Daedalus There isn’t one, but there are obviously degrees of male dominance.

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@Logo_Daedalus The case of women killing infants due to resource stress, insanity, etc. is fairly evenly distributed across primitive societies, if not higher in ones with low paternal investment and age at first birth (contributing to resource stress).

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@Logo_Daedalus Societies with higher male dominance often see infanticide because they are more violent in general, whether against women, children, or other men.

Patrilineal societies with strict dowry norms etc often see signifiant female-biased infanticide as well.

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@Logo_Daedalus The debate on the correlation between male dominance and infanticide has been going on since the 70s, and it’s not at all in your favour.

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@Logo_Daedalus You should read the actual anthropology on this instead of just going off the cuff.

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@Logo_Daedalus Both patriarchy and child sacrifice were weakened in Europe with Christianity.

Among small-scale societies, there is either no correlation between gender egalitarianism and infanticide or one that runs the other way.

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@Logo_Daedalus This is deeply ahistorical.

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@lymanstoneky That people don’t want to have more kids when they have to actually look after them is terrible for your brand of pronatalism.

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@Simonstrosity @Russwarne No, not just because they’re expected to, because it’s more efficient when women also constantly pregnant and most children die.

Evopsych theories can’t explain why this division was immediately and strongly attenuated post-industrialization.

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@rtvrn2svbvrb @Decety @Russwarne What?

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@rtvrn2svbvrb @Decety @Russwarne Disagree. An intelligent alien species would’ve likely also had to evolve a strong preference for cultural transmission, in order to reach that level of organization.

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@Hitchslap1 @RichardHanania You should actually read the study instead of projecting your own biases onto a game of telephone about it.