It would be harder to find out the relative effects of various filters: no children, children don’t reproduce, grandchildren don’t reproduce, etc.
One of the few instances of pervasive modesty among people is underestimating how good they are at things, and getting irritated at all the other people who don’t seem to pass a minimal standard.
As it happens, your comment joins two other recent instances of my failing to notice valuable information at the bottom of a post, so that’s a habit I need to change.
Since I didn’t realize Baumeister had written a book, I did a few word searches (including in google scholar) and didn’t turn anything up. I’d previously raised this as a discussion question, and didn’t get any answers suggesting a solid source.
That sounds reasonable, but I’m not sure whether there are countervailing factors when we’re talking about lineages. When I say I’m not sure, I mean that I’m just not visualizing the logic clearly enough to have an opinion.
Also, if we’re tracking male chromosomes to find out whether men have had children, do we lose track of their daughters?
How much does it matter in ordinary life that descendants presumably follow a power law distribution (lots at the top) rather than a bell curve?
How much of cuckoldry is break-even? That is, a man might be raising another man’s child, but some other man might be raising his child.
Does people becoming less violent make a difference to the chances of male reproduction?
Onwards to hypothetical land: How much do men care about having descendants that they will never see? There are occasional scandals in which men who own sperm banks substitute their own sperm, which is interesting because no sex is involved. It also leads me to wonder whether male staff at sperm banks can be trusted.
Onwards to hypothetical land: How much do men care about having descendants that they will never see?
That depends a lot of the particular men. There are man who do care about it but I think the majority doesn’t.
Sperm banks pay donors instead of the donor paying for the sperm bank accepting it’s sperm.
It would be harder to find out the relative effects of various filters: no children, children don’t reproduce, grandchildren don’t reproduce, etc.
Yes, you’d need much more detailed genealogical information. There’s tons of modern genealogies, of course, but how useful are those outside the modern era?
Since I didn’t realize Baumeister had written a book, I did a few word searches (including in google scholar) and didn’t turn anything up.
Thanks for the information.
It would be harder to find out the relative effects of various filters: no children, children don’t reproduce, grandchildren don’t reproduce, etc.
One of the few instances of pervasive modesty among people is underestimating how good they are at things, and getting irritated at all the other people who don’t seem to pass a minimal standard.
As it happens, your comment joins two other recent instances of my failing to notice valuable information at the bottom of a post, so that’s a habit I need to change.
Since I didn’t realize Baumeister had written a book, I did a few word searches (including in google scholar) and didn’t turn anything up. I’d previously raised this as a discussion question, and didn’t get any answers suggesting a solid source.
Shouldn’t the amount of children that don’t reproduce be the same for men and women?
That sounds reasonable, but I’m not sure whether there are countervailing factors when we’re talking about lineages. When I say I’m not sure, I mean that I’m just not visualizing the logic clearly enough to have an opinion.
Also, if we’re tracking male chromosomes to find out whether men have had children, do we lose track of their daughters?
How much does it matter in ordinary life that descendants presumably follow a power law distribution (lots at the top) rather than a bell curve?
How much of cuckoldry is break-even? That is, a man might be raising another man’s child, but some other man might be raising his child.
Does people becoming less violent make a difference to the chances of male reproduction?
Onwards to hypothetical land: How much do men care about having descendants that they will never see? There are occasional scandals in which men who own sperm banks substitute their own sperm, which is interesting because no sex is involved. It also leads me to wonder whether male staff at sperm banks can be trusted.
That depends a lot of the particular men. There are man who do care about it but I think the majority doesn’t. Sperm banks pay donors instead of the donor paying for the sperm bank accepting it’s sperm.
Yes, you’d need much more detailed genealogical information. There’s tons of modern genealogies, of course, but how useful are those outside the modern era?
His book was the second sentence in the page. :)