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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by barry-cotter on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:16PM (#31254823)
> Many, if not most, human populations spent the majority of their existence with some kind of arranged marriage system.

We’re only confident agriculture has existed for ~5,000 years. Hunter gatherers don’t have the kinds of complex societies that can do organized coercion in a sustained way over generations. Even if you restrict yourself to post agriculture arranged marriage is far from universal and there’s no evidence I’m aware of of a sustained breeding programme selecting for some trait among humans.

Not random and selectively bred work at very different speeds.

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Re:Study of pet dogs shows breed does not predict behaviour by User23 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:35AM (#31257076)
> Hunter gatherers don’t have the kinds of complex societies that can do organized coercion in a sustained way over generations

Extrapolating from the few extant hunter gatherer tribes that never achieved complex civilization to the tribes that invented agriculture is obviously wildly erroneous.

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