Comments on: Effective Polygyny in Humans: Turns out it is for real https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/ Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524161 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:10:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524161 Anyone follow up on the behavioral predictions?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524160 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:58:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524160 You can’t have a non-skewed ratio. Essentially, the baseline for polygamy in general is not a 1:1 operational sex ratio when we speak of mammals, or more generally, internally fertilized internally incubated organisms.

]]> By: snarkyxanf https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524159 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:41:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/02/effective-polygyny-in-humans-t-1/#comment-524159 It seems to my naive eyes that a skewed male reproductive success is possibly consistent with any social behavior other than strict monogamous pairings.

Some males could “outperform” other males by gaining exclusive access to multiple females, by engaging in mating with females attached to other males, or by being more fertile than other males in a promiscuous mating situation. Even in a polyandrous mating system, if one male routinely defeats the other with sperm competition you could see a skewed output, could you not?

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