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It is pretty unique to one sex, as twice as many women have ever reproduced than men (https://www.livescience.com/47976-more-mothers-in-human-history.html https
by zone411 7y ago
It is pretty unique to one sex, as twice as many women have ever reproduced than men (https://www.livescience.com/47976-more-mothers-in-human-history.html https://www.livescience.com/47976-more-mothers-in-human-hist...). There have even been times when 17 times more women have reproduced than men (https://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.long https://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.long).
- marvin 7y agoIn fact, that many men will instinctively resort to any means in an effort to achieve higher status and probability of sex if they are socially isolated... It’s acutally surprisingly obvious given the knowledge that it’s not the norm for men to have children, in evolutionary terms. So obvious it’s weird that there isn’t more focus on avoiding those outcomes in society. Maybe it’s a leftover from agricultural society, where the institution of marriage reduced the tendency. I don’t prefer the strict marriage and fidelity norms of the past, but they certainly had a stabilizing effect. We don’t have a similarly effective stabilizer on the horizon.
- malcolmgreaves 7y agoSo no biological evidence: nothing to support the "instinctual" claim.