>I had previously thought that maybe hunter gatherers practiced polygamy but it faded away as we become more agricultural. I would have thought otherwise, ther

>I had previously thought that maybe hunter gatherers practiced polygamy but it faded away as we become more agricultural. I would have thought otherwise, there is very little incentive for you to labour for the tribe if you have no skin in the game, so to speak. So they would give you a wife otherwise, why fight for them? Why hunt? Why do anything to benefit anyone other than yourself? Since you have nothing to lose, you can even steal from them since no one you care about suffers.