If we just look at current societies, then according to wikipedia polygyny isn’t near common enough to produce a 2:1 ratio.
I don’t think current societies are a representative sample. To take one important difference, traditional warfare typically resulted in the victors killing of the men and taking the women as concubines/extra wives.
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
Sorry, I meant traditional in the sense of pre-modern. Look at the Trojan war for an ancient example. Frankly someversions of this were happening as recently as WWII.
I don’t think current societies are a representative sample. To take one important difference, traditional warfare typically resulted in the victors killing of the men and taking the women as concubines/extra wives.
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
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.