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Why Most Men Lost the Reproduction Competition and Will Continue to do so.

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  If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.  Karl Marx Let's start with a truism that few people have really contemplated, that is, we are all descended from polygamy.  Someone might respond: "Say what? How can that be? I don't have any polygamists in my ancestry." Well, maybe not in the sense of Abraham and Isaac with multiple wives living together, that might, or might not, be the case. But wait, in zoology polygamy is defined as a male mating with multiple females.  And in that sense, yes, we all descend from polygamists. While it may be uncomfortable to consider, in our genetic history, we have twice as many females. That is due to the fact that over 80% of women in the history of humans gave birth to at least one child while only 40% of males did so. How does that add up? I will present how this was, how it is today and why it will become even more lopsided in the near future. For starters: *  Yes, more powerful, or more wealthy ...

Control the Food, Control the People. History Repeating Itself?

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  "I think it would be wise to invite all the sportsman of England and America...for a grand buffalo hunt."   General William T. Sherman I noticed an article recently that Britain plans to phase out 10% of their farmland so they can reach "net zero" on carbon emissions.  The main target will be livestock as the claim goes that raising meat contributes to CO2 more than other forms of food production.  While these claims are allegedly based on science, perhaps the same science that said everyone needed Covid shots, lockdowns would save grandma and that there are 72 genders, and counting, maybe General Sherman would, if alive, recognize a totally different agenda at play...you know, restrict food and you can restrict people. In what passes for teaching history in many US classrooms you were probably "taught" that the buffalo of the Great Plains were almost killed to extinction, but you were not told why. There are famous pictures of massive mounds of buffalo ...