Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

I much prefer the modern world.