If one man marries two women, another man must go unmarried, right? No. Demography matters. If sex ratios are skewed towards women, then polygyny can exist alongside universal marriage for men (who want to marry women). If only more people understood demography 😊
06.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market
🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @rebeccasear.bsky.social led by @hggaddy.bsky.social with @anthrolog.bsky.social challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…)
it's open access 🔓 🧪 @brunelpsy.bsky.social
06.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press,
that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
06.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 130 🔁 51 💬 3 📌 9
I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself.
The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
13.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 55 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
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26.11.2024 16:17 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Assistant Research Professor at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Trained in clinical psychology, studying transdiagnostic approaches to mental health. #empathy #uncertainty #rstats enthusiast. Curious about most things 😊
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality.
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