Month: June 2015

There are a lot of arguments against polygamy from a spiritual, moral and philosophical perspective. But is there also solid scientific evidence that polygamy is bad for the species?
There’s no question that over the past tens of thousands of years of human history, polygamy has left a mark on the human genome that may indicate that small numbers of males must have mated with large numbers of females.

Over time, this polygamous pattern will spawn more genetic differences on the X chromosome than it will on all of the other human chromosomes. That’s because women naturally have two copies of the X chromosome while men have only on X chromosome and one Y chromosome.
To put it another way, diversity arises because some men don’t get to pass on their genes while most women do.
Evidence of Polygamy in Human DNA
Michael Hammer is a population geneticist at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. He says that the evidence of polygamy among early humans can still be seen in our genes.
“Humans are considered to be mildly polygynous and we descent from primates that are polygynous,” Hammer said.
The term “polygyny” refers to the practice of males mating with multiple females. Among humans, it’s takes the form of polygamy or multiple marriages.
Hammer said he and his colleagues looked at the DNA of 90 test subjects from six different ethnic groups: Melanesians, Basques, Han Chinese, and the African cultures of Mandenka, Biaka and San.
XX vs XY Chromosomes
What Hammer and his researchers found was that there were more genetic differences in the X chromosome than scientists would have predicted if the same number of males and females tended to mate over the course of human. The only logical explanation for this is that polygamy has been widespread and has been going on for tens of thousands of years, according to Hammer.
In fact, the evidence suggests that polygamy has been around far, far longer than monogamy, which appears to have not even left any residual evidence in the human genome.
“I don’t know how long monogamy has been with us,” Hammer said. “It seems it hasn’t been around long, evolutionarily.”
Polygamy Widespread in Humans and in Nature
Most societies practice some form of polygamy, according to Hammer. Even if people in the West don’t take multiple wives at the same time, men tend to father children with more females than females do with males. This is a practice known in the scientific community as “effective polygamy”.
But is it good for the gene pool?
Dmitri Petrov is an evolutionary geneticist at Stanford University, in California. He said polygany is found in much of nature, not just in humans.
“It’s not unexpected,” Petrov said. “Polygany is something you would expect to find.”
In fact, Petrov and his researcher colleagues found that the same genetic pattern was apparent in the fruit fly cultures they studied as the human genomes studied by Hammer.
Polygamy Is Bad for Genetics and Society
But is it good for the gene pool? Perhaps not.
Not only is polygamy eroding the human DNA genome, it’s rotting away our culture as well.
Polygamy tends to create a multi-tiered society: Those men with power and money can take multiple wives. This puts them into a higher social class while men who can’t afford multiple wives – or even one wife – are assigned a lower social value.
This two-tiered system invariably undermines social stability. Men who can afford polygamous marriages compete against each other for the most desirable women, shrinking the pool of marriageable women for all other men and fomenting societal resentment.
That requires men of lower social and economic status to compete against each other for a smaller pool of single, marriageable women, which can instill feelings of hopelessness and futility.
An Uncertain Future
When men don’t feel valued by society, inevitably this leads to an increase in risk-taking, resulting in even more socially undesirable behaviors, as well as the consequent increased cost of additional policing, private security, and government-sponsored national defense expenses.
Faced with the prospect of high competition with other males for the attention of fewer females and with little chance of obtaining even a single wife, men without mate can feel as if they have little to live for, which quickly leads to an erosion of personal values.
The resulting breakdown in societal order could be catastrophic and can include such direct consequences as a higher murder rate, an increase in violent crime, higher incidences of rape and kidnapping of women, prostitution, human trafficking, and property crimes.
Drug and alcohol abuse is also more prevalent among single, unmarried men – especially those with no hope of finding marriage anytime in the future – which further accelerates the breakdown of social order.
The bottom line is that polygamy is not only bad for human genetics, but human society as well.

Post Troubled Childhood Disorder (PTCD) has been added to the official list of Mental Disorders.     A professor of abnormal psychology at UC Berkeley, and his students interviewed 719 inmates on California’s death row.  Another professor and his students interviewed 369 Texas death row inmates.  Another interviewed inmates convicted of forcible rape and 2,118 child molesters in New York, New Jersey and Maryland prisons.  All three teams also conducted meticulous studies on the background of each inmate interviewed.

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Of the 1,088 death row inmates studied, all but six were found to have had a troubled childhood.

Most of them had been repeatedly beaten by their fathers, their stepfathers or by their mothers’ boyfriends.

Most of them had been raised in homes or neighborhoods where the illegal use of drugs was prevalent.

The six death row inmates that did not have a troubled childhood were diagnosed as being hardwired psychopaths.

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Of the 1,736 rapists, 1,679 had been sexually molested either by a father or stepfather, by a relative, by their mother’s boyfriend, by a priest, rabbi or pastor, or by numerous individuals during their early childhood.  The 57 rapists that did not have a troubled childhood were diagnosed as being hardwired.

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The contention that ‘rape is not a crime of lust but a crime of violence and power’ is DEAD WRONG.  Rapists had either one of two motives.  Some rapists suffering from PTCD were motivated by a hatred of women because they blamed their mothers for participating in or not intervening in the beatings they suffered during childhood.  Most rapists were motivated by a strong desire to have sex, and because of PTCD, they failed to exercise any self-restraint.

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Of the 2,118 child molesters, all but 17 had been sexually molested in their early childhood.   The 17 who did not have a troubled childhood were diagnosed as being hardwired.

Almost  all murderers, rapists and child molesters were suffering from PTCD at the time they committed their crimes.

The three researchers were also emphatic that with the exception of the hardwired psychopaths, none of the murderers should have been sentenced to death.

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More proof that strong caring father figures are essential for young males to make the leap from thughood to manhood.
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All international terrorism is basically the ancient tribalistic polygamous fight to the death for sex. The old elites need all the young girls for themselves, thus creating the need to kill off or expel low status young males…..

The tribal warlords of history would send their young throwaways to kill the young throwaways of other tribes, thus solving the problem of excess young males. Today it’s a bit more complicated for the elite old bulls to rid themselves of unwanted young males.

The fight to the death for sex destabilizes all polygamous societies. The one and only pathway to prosperity and peace lies in the exceptionalism of exceptionalist monogamy…..

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