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As Jan and Dean put it in Surf City: "two girls for every boy".
by amanaplanacanal 1y ago
As Jan and Dean put it in Surf City: "two girls for every boy".
- pfdietz 1y agoOr more. The prevalence of males seems to be an unfortunate consequence of evolution. There's an evolutionary equilibrium of nearly an equal chance of a male or female offspring, even though the ability of the species to reproduce would be higher with mostly female offspring.
- adrianN 1y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if historically there were more women than men due to accidents involving mammoths or clubs meeting skulls.
- AdrianB1 1y agoWithout a major and unrealistic cultural change, 2 girls to share one boy (polygamy) is not going to happen.
- const_cast 1y agoNo no, not like that. Well, maybe, but no. Most men are useless from a reproductive standpoint because they're not the bottleneck. Women are the bottleneck. More women means no more bottleneck, means more children per person. Also sexual selection is a thing and I think we were really never meant to have this many men. Men seem good for being really successful or otherwise dying, not much in the middle. But also, all this talk is purely from a reproductive standpoint. Human societies also need to consider fairness and rights.
- AdrianB1 1y agoAll you said is correct, but all you said points towards polygamy.
- pfdietz 1y agoIf TFR stays well below 2, there's going to be major change sooner or later. The question becomes which change. Maybe the Amish will take over the world? Or maybe some solution we find really weird will be adopted by some other minority and they'll dominate.