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* Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif, a Moroccan monarch had a harem of 500 women, and registered 525 boy births and 342 girls. After his death, a total of 1171 children were counted.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children</ref> So "[[Platitude|just be a king]]" is clearly the optimal strategy for men's reproductive success, since women prefer men of [[hypergamy|high status]]. Generally men have greater success dating down than up for the same reason. | * Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif, a Moroccan monarch had a harem of 500 women, and registered 525 boy births and 342 girls. After his death, a total of 1171 children were counted.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children</ref> So "[[Platitude|just be a king]]" is clearly the optimal strategy for men's reproductive success, since women prefer men of [[hypergamy|high status]]. Generally men have greater success dating down than up for the same reason. | ||
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* The first [[wife]] of ''Feodor Vassilyev'', a peasant farmer from Shuya, Russia, claimed to have birthed 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets); 67 of them survived infancy with the loss of one set of twins—the record for most children born to a single woman. Marrying a farmer is hence clearly the optimal strategy for women's reproductive success, because a farmer is low in social status, so he has little choice but to be a faithful partner (high-investment strategy), and he still has plenty of objective resources, food, land, water, and shelter. The farmer is the proto-[[betabux]].<ref>https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-mother-ever?fb_comment_id=84106/</ref> | * The first [[wife]] of ''Feodor Vassilyev'', a peasant farmer from Shuya, Russia, claimed to have birthed 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets); 67 of them survived infancy with the loss of one set of twins—the record for most children born to a single woman. Marrying a farmer is hence clearly the optimal strategy for women's reproductive success, because a farmer is low in social status, so he has little choice but to be a faithful partner (high-investment strategy), and he still has plenty of objective resources, food, land, water, and shelter. The farmer is the proto-[[betabux]].<ref>https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-mother-ever?fb_comment_id=84106/</ref> | ||