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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by bombcar on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:23PM (#35943216)
I’ve seen that (maybe sarcastically) proposed in places - unlimited immigration of fertile women only.

Don’t put it past them.

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by selcuka on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:38PM (#35943315)
That's actually happened at least once in history [1]:

> Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787-1868) in order to develop the penal outpost of New South Wales (now a state of Australia) into a viable colony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_women_in_Australia

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by hablog on Sunday May 14, 2023 @10:42PM (#35943353)
This would have some extremely interesting population-level genetic consequences if it was accompanied by some sort of social change to allow polygyny. In particular, it would reduce the correlation that exists across all adaptive traits due to assortative monogamous mating patterns. Right now, all "desirable" traits like health/intelligence/strength/etc are strongly correlated, but when you reduce the strength of assortative effects, the correlation weakens significantly.
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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by aaronblohowiak on Sunday May 14, 2023 @11:00PM (#35943461)
> Right now, all "desirable" traits like health/intelligence/strength/etc are strongly correlated

Oh?

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by hablog on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:45AM (#35950119)
Yeah, for an illustrative example of assortative mating effects, consider the stereotype of the rich nerd with the hot wife. Kids are smart and attractive. This plays out at every pareto level in the sexual marketplace.

Basically, monogamy breaks the ability of sexual selection to "dilute" bad genes with good ones. I'm not anti-monogamy, but it's a social technology which has tradeoffs (this being one of them).

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