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→Before 'enforced monogamy', women's effective population size was up to 17x larger than men's
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* ''And as for the 80%-40% numbers, admittedly those are chosen somewhat arbitrarily. It could have been 60%-30% or 70%-35%. The only definite thing was that twice as many previously living women as men have descendants alive today ... The crucial implication was that for adult women, the odds of passing on genes were much better than for adult men, and so different strategies were needed.'' (Baumeister, 2007) | * ''And as for the 80%-40% numbers, admittedly those are chosen somewhat arbitrarily. It could have been 60%-30% or 70%-35%. The only definite thing was that twice as many previously living women as men have descendants alive today ... The crucial implication was that for adult women, the odds of passing on genes were much better than for adult men, and so different strategies were needed.'' (Baumeister, 2007) | ||
* ''Most men who ever lived did not have descendants who are alive today. Their lines were dead ends.'' (Baumeister, 2007) | * ''Most men who ever lived did not have descendants who are alive today. Their lines were dead ends.'' (Baumeister, 2007) | ||
* ''Look at it this way. Most women have only a few children, and hardly any have more than a dozen — but many fathers have had more than a few, and some men have actually had several dozen, even hundreds of kids. In terms of the biological competition to produce offspring, then, men outnumbered women both among the losers and among the biggest winners.'' (Baumeister, 2007)<ref name=kamin2015/><ref name=diep2017/><ref name=wilder2004/><ref name=baumeister2015/><ref name=tierney2007 | * ''Look at it this way. Most women have only a few children, and hardly any have more than a dozen — but many fathers have had more than a few, and some men have actually had several dozen, even hundreds of kids. In terms of the biological competition to produce offspring, then, men outnumbered women both among the losers and among the biggest winners.'' (Baumeister, 2007)<ref name=kamin2015/><ref name=diep2017/><ref name=wilder2004/><ref name=baumeister2015/><ref name=tierney2007/> | ||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | ||