Whoa! Polygamist solution is frightening...

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

By the way, what happens to the baby BOYS that are born in these groups? Are they ejected from the group in their teens because of the competition they represent to the older men?
(Not unlike young bull elephants being thrown out of a heard by the older males to form their own groups.)
And doesn't this lifestyle break down when you consider that most men won't have ANY wives (or "A" wife) if a select few get them all?

Well there are other considerations... There are wars to fight and die for (something men mostly do)

then men do die younger (especially if one has multiple wives)

then there is the case of oppressing governments that tend to swoop in and take a good number of the men and incarcerate them for about 20 years...