A lot to unpack (read - wildly speculate about) here.
10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a "solved game".
1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polygamy, pride-of-lions. Groups are small enough that village elders control the, uh, means of production. The bottleneck on food is natural stocks.
200-300 generations ago lines up with the dawn of civilization and large-scale farming (5-7000 years ago). The bottleneck on food is human labour. Young people are encouraged to start (reasonably) self-sufficient farming families, and the surplus is traded for, taxed, or stolen.
0-50 generations ago (1000AD+)
??? Cultural escape velocity is reached. Women are having children later than ever before, pointing to less risky lives, greater food security, and increased autonomy, but also a heavier load of cultural baggage. Becoming elves isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Also, before someone else says it, blah blah blah average vs median.
10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a "solved game".
1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polygamy, pride-of-lions. Groups are small enough that village elders control the, uh, means of production. The bottleneck on food is natural stocks.
200-300 generations ago lines up with the dawn of civilization and large-scale farming (5-7000 years ago). The bottleneck on food is human labour. Young people are encouraged to start (reasonably) self-sufficient farming families, and the surplus is traded for, taxed, or stolen.
0-50 generations ago (1000AD+) ??? Cultural escape velocity is reached. Women are having children later than ever before, pointing to less risky lives, greater food security, and increased autonomy, but also a heavier load of cultural baggage. Becoming elves isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Also, before someone else says it, blah blah blah average vs median.