Why Do Men Have to Approach Women?
The Mating Grounds Podcast
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Why do men have to approach women? Well, they don't have to, but that's the way it's worked for 500 million years. For females of most species, there's a huge opportunity cost with reproduction. Once you're pregnant, that's it. You're pregnant until you can get pregnant again two years later. So if we think of ter theire being sort of an almost equal sex ratio, if a bunch of reproductively aged women are now taken off the market because they're pregnant, now the number of women to men that are valable for reproduction is really skewed. There's a lot more men around than there are women who are able to reproduce at a given
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