monogamy/polygamy is not explicitly about procreation. obviously they're linked since sex=babies. but in the modern age sex doesn't necessarily equal babies. monogamy and polygamy is talking about the relations between men and women and how they are distributed in sexual relations. under the strongly socially enforced monogamy in european civilization until the 1970's. there was upward trends in basically everything. polygamy simply means that the sexual distribution tends itself towards a small number of men having many sexual partners, and a whole bunch of men that lose out because of it and don't have any sexual partners. that explains current statistics around women. 62% of men have had no sexual relations in the last year. our society is rapidly evolving into a polygamous one. with under 35's, as a cohort, being overwhelmingly polygamous.   > we aren't in nature anymore lmao. that you even think that shows how disconnected you are. > and no, wrong. survival of the fittest means most fit to exist in their current environment. survival of the fittest is not a game of individual organisms only. in social species, like humans, it's also a social-darwinist game of survival and competition between groups. more men means more power and more insurance for one's progeny. you misunderstand the basics of darwinian competition almost completely.   > lol polygamy was much larger in size among farmer societies. we all live in farmer societies. going back several thousand years, monogamy was the norm for everyone except a few very well of nobles who could get harems. we know this because all of the evidence points towards that. yet we know from patrilineal dna, that during the stone age tribal hunter-gatherer societies, that the male-female ratio was skewed heavily to a large number of females relative to males. how is it that you think that farmer societies were more polygamous that tribal ones when we can't see that represented anywhere?
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