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minus-squareComment105@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoYou don’t just “have many redundant wives”. It starts out roughly 50/50 from birth no matter what you do. You either have more women by having a lot of single men, or a lot of dead men, or by taking women from other places.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoYes I mentioned that earlier in the thread. Polygyny = some men have many wives, others have none.
You don’t just “have many redundant wives”. It starts out roughly 50/50 from birth no matter what you do.
You either have more women by having a lot of single men, or a lot of dead men, or by taking women from other places.
Yes I mentioned that earlier in the thread. Polygyny = some men have many wives, others have none.