Joseph Henrich

I don't know the answer to that question.

So that would be, that's a nice piece of evidence.

So, you know, there's a couple of groups working on medieval ancient DNA.

So hopefully we'll have more answers on that question.

I mean, there is enough now of pre-Roman burials, so Bronze Age type stuff, showing that, you know, early Europeans definitely had complex, intensive kin groups, patrilineal, patrilocal residents, that kind of stuff, polygyny.

Well, I mean, the first thing to think about is those other authors.

I mean, possibly Greg Clark is an exception, but they don't think about the psychological variation that exists.

So there's good reason to think there's all these psychological differences, and you have to believe they don't cash out.

And if you think they exist, then you have to explain them.

And so you need a theory that explains them.

So Bob Allen has, I mean, he's a blank.

He's a blank on the psychological variation.

So let me give you some evidence that I think is some pretty good evidence.

So we have a database of the diffusion of Roman bishoprics through Europe.

And then what we do is we look at what happens when a bishopric arrives.

And I mentioned before you get a flow of people.

But another fact is if you look at the production of famous people, these places where the bishopric has arrived start producing more creative individuals relative to non-creatives.

So there's an uptick and it keeps going up for centuries.

So the relative increase.

And so that suggests you're producing more authors and inventors and writers and whatnot.