• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    There are definitely cultures who have practiced polygyny to get around this issue. Some still do today, for example in many different countries in Africa where people still practice a pastoral life.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t see how polygyny gets around the issue of risk of death from pregnancy.

      Polygyny would get around the issue of men getting killed.

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          Edit: This first point was wrong, but the second point still stands.

          Polygyny wouldn’t solve the aforementioned problem if we suppose that the birth rate of men and women is roughly the same. If one man has many wives, some of whom even die, then several other men won’t have any wives.