Re:Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cult...
by dragonwriter on Monday November 30, 2015 @01:59PM
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> Wouldn't that just be any culture that has a significantly offset male-female ratio?
A significantly-greater-than-1.0 male-to-female ratio would be a different cause of the same problem; polygyny produces it even without that ratio difference. (Polyandry would seem, in principle, to offset it, but there aren't lots of historical examples of that to study.)
A significantly-greater-than-1.0 male-to-female ratio would be a different cause of the same problem; polygyny produces it even without that ratio difference. (Polyandry would seem, in principle, to offset it, but there aren't lots of historical examples of that to study.)