Re: not even sort of old power, Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:

According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:

So, you (and her) will have to pass over 10,000 of the others to end
up with a compatible partner.

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For most of human history most people lived in communities of a few
hundred or a few thousand, with little option to travel very far, and
nonetheless most people managed to find someone to marry.

Genetic investigations have turned up an interesting fact: The
mitrochoncial chromosomes (to track the pure female line) tended
to spread out geographically, the Y chromosomes (to track the pure
male line) tended to stay in place, at least in Europe.

The explanation was that women tended to marry into the next
village, men tended to stay in place.