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> quite a few people > grandfather fathered a child at 80... , and your father got you when he was 80 too, and if you are 90 I don't think these things are as

• wahern 7y ago
  No, but there are like 7 billion people, and until very recently polygyny was widespread around the globe. A male usually needs to be wealthy to have multiple wives, but those are precisely the sorts of males that are likely to have above average lifespans. And, of course, serial monogamy has similar causes and effects. My spouse had two maternal grandmothers. When the elder one could no longer have children (or perhaps didn't wish to have any more), not yet having borne a son, she arranged for a second wife. My spouse's grandfather was in his 70s when his last child, a son, was a born. And this man was simply a middle-class shopkeeper.[1] People don't talk much about polygyny because it's awkward in modern culture, even in places like Africa and Asia where it's often only one generation removed, if that. [1] AFAIU, polygyny is still legal in that country, Malaysia, though now permitted of Muslims only. Whereas previously polygyny was practiced by Muslims, Chinese, possibly Indians (not sure), and presumably the indigenous population as well.