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Re:When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved... by rjsw on Sunday February 17, 2019 @07:17AM (#19184096)
I wonder whether traditional marriage is the cause of western style society rather than a product of it.

If only the Alpha males get to reproduce then you only select for Alpha male type characteristics. You don't select for the gene sets that will produce new inventions, good craftspeople, or people who can work at administration of larger groups.

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Re:When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved... by menzoic on Sunday February 17, 2019 @08:09AM (#19184276)
There is no alpha male. The original study confused the father in a family of wolves as a general "alpha". The original author retracted the results, but it still lives on.

https://www.businessinsider.com/no-such-thing-alpha-male-201...

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Re:When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved... by hopler on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:05PM (#19185433)
Substitute "alpha" with "cad", then. The fact remains that when transaction costs are reduced (as with mobile app dating), polygamy increases to that number of 20% of males mating with 80% of the females, with reproduxtio mitigated by modern birth control.
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