Polygyny's Impact on Society

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Men who have lots of babies with lots of different women seem to be having a moment right now.

It’s easy to find discussions of emergent polygyny in the more manospheric corners of Reddit and incel Discord servers, which describe “Chads” with numerous sexual partners as just one manifestation of this dynamic.

Today ’s polygynous pastoral nomads have been relegated to a handful of pockets of steppe lands in central Asia , together with a broad swathe of the Sahel .

Monogamous societies are better at that because monogamous women have more babies and those babies are likelier to be healthy.

In Finland , Laestadian Lutherans retain stable fertility at around three or four children per woman.

In America ’s two most prominent elite polygynists are no exceptions to the rule that polygyny does not much improve reproductive fitness.

Elon Musk has thirteen children by four women; his brother, Kimbal Musk , has three children from three relationships.

The Musk family fertility rate is therefore about average.

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