Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

DEFINING ‘DOMESTICATION’

|Domestication|: Domestication Syndrome > Social Domestication > Behavioral Domestication > Institutional Domestication > Metaphysical domestication (habit, tradition, intuition).

Outline:
1. Genetic
2. Social and Political
3. Demographic
4. Summary

1. GENETIC
a) Domestication syndrome trades aggression and impulse in time for self regulation over time, producing prosociality.
b) Neoteny is the preservation or retention of childhood traits and especially adaptivity in response for slower or lesser sexual maturity and longer life span.
c) Human Self Domestication is the result of the utility of neotenic selection producing domestication syndrome, and the subsequent longer duration of prosociality adaptability (childhood) including impulse regulation, suppression of aggression, necessary when placing greater demands on prosocial cooperation(+) and altruistic punishment(-) facilitating survival in increasingly adversarial circumstances.

2. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
As I use the term social domestication in comparative class, nation, state, culture, and civilization: the production of a high trust society, meaning the commons before the self. We measure high trust most commonly as absence of corruption on one point of the triangle, and the success of rule of law and courts on the other, in Natural Law, Natural Rights, and the non-communist articles in Human Rights on the next, and the absence of criminality on the last point of the triangle.

In simple terms it’s behavioral domestication by the conversion of dominance expression through irreciprocity at the expense of commons, to reciprocity and subsequent accumulation of commons.

In reductive (first principle) terms it’s the institutional (political) production of individual responsibility for both private, semi-private, and common.

Why does it matter? Because trust is the most costly capital to produce, becuase it places the greatest intellectual, psychological, emotional, and practical (physical) burden on members of the population.

Only Northern Europeans, Japanese and Koreans have managed to create high trust societies. And it’s not clear that courts really function in Japan, or whether the danger of capture by the court (98% conviction rate) is of such a threat that the population avoids crime at all costs.

3. DEMOGRAPHIC:
Though (a) Population isolation and winters cause genetic domestication (or ‘genetic pacification’ per Harpending) (b) winters and agrarianism produce natural selection toward domestication by selection for reduction of impulsivity (high time preference) and in favor of self regulation (low time preference). (c) The singular direction of human evolution is neotenous, and selection for neoteny in humans produces domestication syndrom. (d) The primary major races were caused by speciation events in east african rift valley(Second wave africans), the dry persian gulf(south eurasians), the tibetan plateu(east asians), and the european peninsula (europeans), with the most recent the Ob River System in north Russia (ancestral north eurasians). Despite the four races being as different as europeans and east asians, a set of hybridization events, largely in response to the counter clockwise rotation of populations in asia as glaciers receded, followed by the expansion of the agrarian revolution, and now by the european age of sail, transport, and trade, have caused a new set of hybridization events. With hybridizations producing the predictable avearage difference in neoteny between whatever primary races hybridize.

As such while we see substantial differences in the neoteny of the primary races and hybridizations, which is measured most accurately by differences in neural adaptivity (IQ), the causal reason is largely (a) the ease or difficulty of isolation events in the geography, and (b) the size of the underclasses (genetic load) sustainable in the geography, (c) producing different distributions of neotenic evolution and (d) therefore less or more difficulty in producing a high trust society.

In other words race differences are artifacts of using averages, when all we are measuring is the difference in the genetic load of the underclasses capable of surviving in that geography.

4. SUMMARY
In other words, other than minor variations in cognitive bias by variation in sexual dimorphism: female empathizing and verbal in time vs masculine systematizing and physical over time, all peoples should be able over time to produce a high trust society.

Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute

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