Comment by rayiner
1 year ago
> They inevitably enter a rebellious phase
Adolescents have a biological inclination to distance themselves from their parents. But in cultures that properly isolate and ostracize non-conformists and trouble makers, you don’t necessarily have a “rebellious” phase. (Some undoubtedly do, most don’t.)
If a "rebellious phase" in an Inuit population would entail falling into frigid water and dying, one angry teen per generation that falls in is probably enough to keep the rest out, if it's not cleared from the gene pool altogether. The latter might be bad armchair evolutionary psychology, but we're talking about a small population that's been in an extreme environment for a pretty long time.