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Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics? - Gregory Clark - #728
Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author.
Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely.
Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower social status can impact the birthrate, why more attractive people have more social status, the difficulties of publishing research like this and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Studying Social Status Inheritance
(10:56) How Gregory Defines Social Status
(18:16) Why Ideologues Hate Social Status Inheritance
(25:20) The Role of Marriage in Status
(32:31) How a Man’s Father May Be Considered By a Mate
(43:06) Do People Who Ascended Eventually Regress?
(49:08) Implications of Genetic Social Status
(53:59) How Declining Birth Rates Impacts Social Hierarchies
(1:04:29) Importance of Attractiveness to Social Mobility
(1:07:22) When Gregory Got Cancelled
(1:17:01) Do Our Successes Actually Belong To Us?
(1:23:58) Integrating Genetic Knowledge Into Our Lives
(1:26:29) Where to Find Gregory
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Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author.
Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely.
Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower social status can impact the birthrate, why more attractive people have more social status, the difficulties of publishing research like this and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Studying Social Status Inheritance
(10:56) How Gregory Defines Social Status
(18:16) Why Ideologues Hate Social Status Inheritance
(25:20) The Role of Marriage in Status
(32:31) How a Man’s Father May Be Considered By a Mate
(43:06) Do People Who Ascended Eventually Regress?
(49:08) Implications of Genetic Social Status
(53:59) How Declining Birth Rates Impacts Social Hierarchies
(1:04:29) Importance of Attractiveness to Social Mobility
(1:07:22) When Gregory Got Cancelled
(1:17:01) Do Our Successes Actually Belong To Us?
(1:23:58) Integrating Genetic Knowledge Into Our Lives
(1:26:29) Where to Find Gregory
Extra Stuff:
Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books
Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom
Episodes You Might Enjoy:
This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins
How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson
The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman
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Get In Touch:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast
Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact
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