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>Women seek to mate with the most high status males, evidenced by the fraction of men who get the majority of the “action” on dating apps and in life. I don't
by bryanrasmussen 4y ago
>Women seek to mate with the most high status males, evidenced by the fraction of men who get the majority of the “action” on dating apps and in life.
I don't think you can really extrapolate to all of human history from a time when birth control is widely available.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoThey’ve done DNA anaylsis before and it was something like 13% of men in history successfully reproduced before civilisation enforced monogamy. Like how most male pack animals don’t get to reproduce.
- tzs 4y ago> something like 13% of men in history successfully reproduced before civilisation enforced monogamy Note that doesn't necessarily mean only 13% of men were having sex. A woman could have sex with a 2000 different men over the course of 20 years and only at most less than 40 of those 2000 men could reproduce as a result of those couplings.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agodo you have this point when "civilization" enforced monogamy? I would think the explanation was more that Og the big violent caveman took all the women and clubbed any one who got to close which is very close to what mating has looked like in lots of human history. Men locking up the women to mate with - harems etc. - is not quite the same as "Women seek to mate"