It's actually proven out long term in the genome. Only about 40% of all men who've ever lived had children. 80% of women have. Women have higher selectivity toward partners.
Wilder, J. A., Mobasher, Z., & Hammer, M. F. (2004). "Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human females and males". Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 2047-2057.
One of the things I really dislike about modern sexuality studies is that they never take into account the fact that humans are primates. At least, none of the trendy ones do. They also tend to focus on a microcosm of sexuality.
This one is quite a bit worse, as the baity math lingo in the title has nothing to do with the actual content of the article.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 30.8 ms ] threadFemales are highly selective. So top 20% males will get laid multiple times, while 80% will not.
Wilder, J. A., Mobasher, Z., & Hammer, M. F. (2004). "Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human females and males". Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 2047-2057.
This one is quite a bit worse, as the baity math lingo in the title has nothing to do with the actual content of the article.