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... - 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 - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Jan 6, 20241h 27mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: January 6, 2024
Duration: 1h 27m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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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... - 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 - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Gregory Clark
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Gregory Clark, Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics? - Gregory Clark explores genetics, Marriage, And The Hidden Physics Of Social Mobility Gregory Clark discusses a massive 400‑year study of 425,000 linked English individuals suggesting that social status is highly heritable and surprisingly stable over time, with little change in social mobility since the 17th century.

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