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Women may have reproduced twice as often as men throughout history as a result.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Before_.27enforced_monogamy.27.2C_women.27s_effective_population_size_was_up_to_17x_larger_than_men.27s</ref> | Women may have reproduced twice as often as men throughout history as a result.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Before_.27enforced_monogamy.27.2C_women.27s_effective_population_size_was_up_to_17x_larger_than_men.27s</ref> | ||
Women prefer partnered men over single men which may be related to women's preference for high status, but may also be an adaption of women living in harmes.<ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2649.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109001048</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660608/</ref> | Women prefer partnered men over single men which may be related to women's preference for high status, but may also be an adaption of women living in harmes.<ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2649.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103109001048</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1660608/</ref> | ||
==Relation to female hypergamy== | |||
Polygyny naturally ties in with the topic of hypergamy as women's greater choosiness, and their greater tendency to demand a potential romantic partner to have resource provision capabilities or high social status compared to men, implies an overall tendency for women to date up. | |||
An example of this would be the fact that a man's social status is positively associated with his potential fertility and ability to become polygynous, that is, that wealthier and higher status men have a much greater 'potential' copulation frequency. Status was in fact found in one large scale study to explain up to 62% of the variance in men's potential copulation frequency, much higher than the typical effect sizes for other male traits in relation to this topic in psychology.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Men.27s_social_status_accounts_for_62.25_of_the_variance_of_copulation_opportunities</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-019-09354-4</ref> | |||
There is also strong evidence that the historical selection pressure on male wealth has been fairly large, with this selection pressure being the strongest in cultures with institutionalized polygyny.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2742548</ref> This historical selection pressure on male wealth strongly suggests that greater male wealth historically increased a man's chance of being polygynous, with a man's potential to become polygynous becoming mediated more by a man's access to resources, as opposed to brute physical dominance, as human societies increased in complexity. | |||
These selection pressures on male resource provision potential, while weaker in societies with monogamous marriage norms, are still existent due to serial monogamy and institutions that subvert strict monogamy by allowing high-status men access to concurrent female partners. An example in Western culture would be wealthy men often maintaining one or several mistresses. Serial monogamy would be expected to benefit wealthier men, as these men often remarry younger, fertile women.<ref>https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/21/5/906/197047</ref> | |||
Remarriage rates are consistently higher in men than women,<ref>https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/11/14/chapter-2-the-demographics-of-remarriage/</ref> wealthy men are less likely to be childless primarily due to them being more likely than poorer men to be in stable unions (marital or non-marital),<ref>https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/591690</ref> and serial monogamy benefits men more than women (likely due to men's more lengthy potential reproductive careers).<ref>https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/21/5/906/197047</ref> | |||
This evidence suggests that wealthy men are more likely to practice de-facto polygyny, even in modern countries with greater gender equality and still extant (though often weakly observed) monogamous social norms. | |||
== Growing acceptance of polygamy == | == Growing acceptance of polygamy == | ||