High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Number 40, October 2025.
SignificanceSocial scientists often assume that when men can marry more than one wife (polygyny), many other men will not be able to marry. Versions of this hypothesis feature prominently in theories of the Civil War, the evolution of monogamy, and the Incel…
