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They’ve done DNA anaylsis before and it was something like 13% of men in history successfully reproduced before civilisation enforced monogamy. Like how most ma
by MagicMoonlight 4y ago
They’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"