Dan Minette wrote: > > I was specifically thinking about rape accompanying conquest. Lets > simplify it. Take a system with thousands of tribes. There are attacks > from time to time. The variables are such that each is as likely to wind > the conquest as the other. > > 5% of these thousands of tribes have a gene that causes its males to take > the females of the other tribe as concubines. 95% have a gene that causes > its males to let old marriages stand. After a tribe has been conquered and > absorbed , it eventually splits into two tribes simply because its more > convenient to organize into relatively smaller groups. > > I'd argue that after a number of generations, the gene to take the women of > the other tribe as concubines will dominate. > This will _not_ happen if the half-brothers compete among themselves: it might be that having two sons from different women might _decrease_ the chance that a man would have (male) grandchildren, because those two half-brothers would kill/maim each other to control the father's inheritance.
In fact, this could have happened in many royal families over History. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
