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>> It has to balance out It doesn't. In a species with 50/50 split between male and female, the number of males is almost irrelevant to population growth. Ta
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> It has to balance out
It doesn't. In a species with 50/50 split between male and female, the number of males is almost irrelevant to population growth. Take rabbits. If you kill at birth 90% of the males, the population growth won't slow as the limit is the number of babies per-female. The 10% of males that survive simply father more kids via more females. Males can do that. Females cannot. Going one step further, killing all those males increases the resources available to the females. Ironically, culling those males can cause a population to grow faster than if they lived.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> In a species with 50/50 split between male and female, the number of males is almost irrelevant to population growth. The split between male and female isn't relevant to this. Unless the males are needed to raise the children, the number of males is irrelevant to population growth. But the average benefit of having a son remains equal to the average benefit of having a daughter; that's why the ratio stays at 50/50.
- mPReDiToR 5y agoUnless you get a society where men are only used for reproduction. Then it can get very extreme. Fatalities can occur. Death by snu-snu!