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

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Do Sex Ratios Affect Family Formation?

In traditional societies, males can take multiple wives or marry polygano. The idea that if you get too many men into society, it's going to wreak havoc and become very unstable is an urban myth. In male biased counties a, there was actually greater stability, not lower stability. And so i think the idea we may be in danger of being over-burdened by excess males doesn't make any sense at all.

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