• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    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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      5 months ago

      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.