Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics? - Gregory Clark

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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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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