Looking at data from the 1880 census, Moore (1990, p. 327) reports that “the men of the peace bands were more fertile than those of the war bands by a factor of 1.61.” This is a big differential, selecting against the genes carried by the chiefs into war. The situation is less dramatic for the human animal, and still, few men father most of the kids—think of Suleyman the Magnificent or Genghis Khan as extreme cases of this general phenomenon. Another way of describing this modest association is to note that the conditional probability for a peripheral man to be a leader, p = .333, is greater than a normal man’s probability to be a leader, p = .0007.
Author: Joachim I. Krueger Ph.D.
Published at: 2025-04-28 21:12:55
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