• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    1 年前

    Classic selection bias. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but I remember reading that the majority of men who have ever lived never reproduced. That’s unfortunately pretty normal.

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      Historically, before agriculture it was about two to three women having offspring for every man who did.

      During the Agricultural era (12,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE) that ratio hit a high of 9 women reproducing for every man who did so, and stayed around that for most of that time.

      From there it slowly declined back down to the current world-wide average of two women reproducing for every man who manages to do so.