family unit yes

"evolutionary behavior" is not at all clear

but how large of a family unit

The average life span wasn't that high even lol

one brother stayed in the original territory

Usually was not the case

life span stats are misleading, they include a lot of infant and childhood mortality

especially when you drastically cahnged the environment, then "evolutionary behavior" doesn't help much to predict what happens

well you mean amalgamation of families basicaly handrubbing,yeah for sure

we need a Chinese/Japanese clan system

if you made it to 22 you would be likely to live quite a long time

My entire family spent the last thousand years of their history living on just three islands

what may have evolved will no longer be beneficial in a drastically different environment

you're in the East, aren't you?

cuck island?

We have been a colonial family for about six centuries

😉

Only the second most recent generation of my family left the rest and only within the last few decades

none of this refutes what I'm saying

yes "absolute nuclear family" has only been possible post ww2 or so

old people were not moving west, and at least one brother stayed behind on the original land

so people may actually have evolved in UK to get as away from family as possible for some reason, but because of economics they could not until recently, then when it became possible, the families fell apart

or certainly post urbanisation/ind rev

It does, when you there are labour and resource shortages, people don't split up and head into unknown territory full of hostile foreigners, they stick together

colonization ***did*** drive the Nuclear family for a long time

but they literally did though

This whole 'moving west' thing just applies to the U.S. out of dozens of colonial countries and also disregards entirely who exactly 'moved west'

it doesn't just apply to the US, it happened in Canada as well, the east was settled first

you cant have children without extended family support

there is reason to believe that having excessively tight families was so economically detrimental in the last thousand years in northern europe that it would have reduced birth rates

Yes, but the family units of eastern Canada didn't split up to populate the west, most of the families that peopled the land were new migrants from the UK

those willing to break family ties could have more kids by finding better opportunities

then, when it became much easier to separate, the families fell apart

Migrants that came with their entire families

For the most part

'economically detrimental' *rub hands*

no, it means that if you stayed in a multigenerational household like in southern europe, you could not have as many kids as if you moved to a new house

i am not saying anything is good or bad today

The impetus for the splitting of the extended family unit was urbanisation, not colonialism, it was the movement from the farm to the city

but plenty has been written about this

Young libtards abandoning the agrarian life for the convenience of cities