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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by danieltillett on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:47AM (#12231485)
A Y-chromosome bottleneck actually suggest a limited number of males controlled reproduction not females.
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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by madaxe_again on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:53AM (#12231516)
Limited number, but not necessarily controlled, and the bottleneck could be symptomatic of a change in control.

You are absolutely right however that it plays both ways - we don't actually yet know enough - but something happened.

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Re:Who’s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) by danieltillett on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:58AM (#12231542)
We have evidence from other mammals and all other cases a strong Y-chromosome bottleneck is the result of harem male behaviour. If I had to bet I would say the bottleneck was driven by powerful males monopolising females, not females all choosing a small number of males.
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