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How Love Evolved | Dr. Helen Fisher

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Polyandry and Polyginy

Polyginy and polyandry have to do with a reproduction for man. Man could have many wives, if he can get enough money, han have a lot more children. But it has to do with economics and a underlying all that is the basic human reproductive strategy of serial partners monogamy. And so they'll do it. I don't know if they're still doing it, but as of the 19 sixties, they were doing it.

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i even went, even when it's polly andry, ostensibly, it's very similar to what we see in other human cultures, in practice, exactly. And
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then the other place where you see it is in the northwest coast, traditionally. Now mi guess, as his is gong by the way of a lot of things, with modern television and modern education, et cetera. But in part some of these northwest coast indian cultures, women were extremely powerful, because men did all and canoeing of the and did all the cap catching, of the hunting and the fishing. But then they went on these long fishing trips, i mean, trading trips, and the woman sat in the back of the boat and said where to go, and she did all the haggling, did all the trading. So even in modern em a north west coast indian er er alaskan eties, the men do a great deal more of the fishing and n the hunting. So they are, they're gone most of the year. They're gone out on living and fishing stations, et cetera, et cetera, for months. So when you go into these villages, it's, it's the woman that's running the school system. It's a woman who's running the post office. It's a woman who's running the bank. Because they're there. They're still extremely power. And ihad a wonderful friend still do, laura cline, who studied the clinket t l i an g i t clinket indians. And where women are extremely powerful. And under those circumstances, they can find a man, two men who are willing to share their wealth. And so they'll do it. I don't know if they're still doing it, but as of the 19 sixties, they were doing it. So polyginy and polyandry have to do with a reproduction for man. Man could have many wives, if he can get enough money, han have a lot more children. Ah. But it has to do with economics and a underlying all that. Or or or overwhelming all that is the basic human reproductive strategy of serial partners monogamy.

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