thread of threads/tweets of mine from 2019 i'd like to highlight. (^_^)
remember: evolution can be recent, rapid, local, and is ongoing. the forces of evolution are: mutation, selection, (gene) migration, and genetic drift. also, pop viscosity matters. 1/n
remember: evolution can be recent, rapid, local, and is ongoing. the forces of evolution are: mutation, selection, (gene) migration, and genetic drift. also, pop viscosity matters. 1/n
here's last year's thread, btw. 2/n
long thread on the communal field systems of medieval nw "core" europe. these pushed strongly for cooperation and conformity among comparatively unrelated, outbred nuclear families. [scroll up and down] 3/n
tweet on field systems and the reformation. 4/n
thread on the resettlement of the low countries starting in the early medieval period. 5/n
nw "core" europeans have been different for a long time tweet. 6/n
unlike medieval nw european populations, byzantine society in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was not communal. 7/n
medieval family types in europe connected to regional disparities in things like household size, edu attainment, social capital, labor participation, wealth, inequality *today.* 8/n
thread on family types in historic southern europe (italy & iberia). 10/n
#Particularism in china thread: "It is no exaggeration to say that China as a whole consists of families, and of nothing else." 11/n
#Particularism in east asia thread: "[East] Asians have a particularistic outlook, not a universalistic one." [scroll up and down.] 12/n
"China can be visualised as concentric circles...of family and social relationships spreading from a centre, which is oneself, to the surrounding society.... Spreading outward, the further out they go the more faint they become." 13/n
characteristics of the traditional chinese family, from pre-modern times to late-qing period. #Familism 14/n
"[D]uring the late Ming, Qing, and Republic, a period of some 500 years, [Chinese kinship hierarchies] were the predominant organizational principle." #Familism 15/n
the qing government never managed to control, let alone get rid of, clans in china. (unlike what happened in medieval europe.) 16/n
chinese society is based on egocentrism, not individualism. "In the traditional Chinese system of morality, there is no concept of 'love' such as that which exists in Christianity - universal love without distinctions." [scroll up and down.] 17/n
the chinese are not very trusting of strangers (people they've just met for the first time). 18/n
koreans don't trust strangers either. 19/n
twentieth century china was non-european, but japan european, wrt traditional family types/marriage patterns. 20/n
excuse me, but there is a...uh...um...*ahem*...LINE in japan! 21/n
in ca. 600 a.d., the japanese had both nuclear & extended families and kinship was bilateral. this lasted for 700-1000 years. thread! 22/n
manors (shōen) in medieval japan contributed to the *growth* of clans. this is the opposite of medieval "core" europe. 23/n
short thread: timothy i, patriarch of the church of the east from 780-823, tried to ban cousin marriage by nestorian christians. it didn't work. 24/n
nahua groups (think: aztecs) lived and worked together in extended family compounds post-colonization, usually groups of brothers and their wives and children. 25/n
mini-thread on guilt vs. shame cultures. (they all prolly have elements of both. it's a matter of the balance.) 26/n
57% of black, 35% of hispanic, and 20% of white children in the u.s. live in extended families. 27/n
"From 1880 through 1960, black children were two to three times more likely to reside without one or both parents than were white children." 28/n
"Clientelism [brokerage] Remains the Dominant Feature of Irish Political Culture". orly? 29/n
"[O]f the approximate 2.7 million Germans who fled the GDR prior to 1961, 839,000 were expellees [from eastern europe]." 30/n
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise. 31/n
random medieval swiss mercenaries thread. 32/n
ca. 600 a.d. gregory the great (reportedly) writes to augustine of canterbury that the offspring of cousins "cannot thrive." 33/n
al-ghazali (d. 1111) recommended avoiding consanguineous marriages and even claimed that the prophet had said that cousin matings produced weak offspring. 34/n
close marriage common in arab peninsula since pre-islamic times. 35/n
#HajnalLine 36/n
ok, i'll stop now. =P
thanks for the follows everybody. happy new year! (^_^) 37/37
thanks for the follows everybody. happy new year! (^_^) 37/37
