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WiM042 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 4 | Instincts and Incentives
The "What is Money?" Show
Monogamy and Polyginus Civilization
In the game theory of this, imagine two different civilizations. And one civilization, it's kind of like you've got the alphamale, detspot and harem system. And then a whole bunch of young men who are dispossessed, don't think they'll ever be able to get a mate, right? They might better off running away somewhere else. So why bother? On the other hand, once you have institutionalized like normative monogamy, were use specifically a encourage young men get married,. You also discourage the wealthiest, most powerful men from having multiple n lives. Once you equalize the distribution of mates, suddenly all the young men have civilizational byin
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