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#555 Karen Kramer: Life History, Parenting, Population Growth, Dipersals, and Mating Systems

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Monogamy, Polyendry or Polygony?

There are gross trends, and there's lots of exceptions. In most hunter gatherers, males don't monopolize tradeable resources,. I mean, anything that thwarts your mobility is a drag on you. So why do we have unbridled polygony in our own society? Good question, right? Cause we got lots of access to wealth in the form of dollars in banks. And you now, we have strong soc rules. Enormous about that. The other thing we know is that across human history when you get these super wealthy at the top, they create these amazing harems where men can really monopolize women. There's no way nobody wants to tolerate

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