Manfred comments on Differential reproduction for men and women. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 03 April 2013 07:09:55AM 1 point [-]

Right. That's why I also looked up the indigenous people of New Zealand, who were hunter-gatherers until pretty recently. And who still had monogamy as the norm, except for the chiefs, who had ~1 concubine. If you think that other hunter-gatherer societies (preferably close to ancestral population densities) would be different, then how about you do the research :P

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 April 2013 07:23:00AM 1 point [-]

Sorry, I meant traditional in the sense of pre-modern. Look at the Trojan war for an ancient example. Frankly some versions of this were happening as recently as WWII.