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[–]GConly 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

our minds adapt, often over centuries through cultural evolution, to the institutional and technological worlds we encounter.”

Completely ignoring that genetic changes can happen remarkably quickly.

Jared Diamond’s 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel.

The man is a complete froot loop. One of the Reddit anthropology subs used to have a bot explaining just how awful it is every time it was mentioned.

If you want to know one if the stabilizing forces on Western civilization it was probably monogamous marriage. It stopped women being 'collectibles' to be fought over.

But yes our dislike of cousin marriage probably helped to break down our tribal mindset.