[Magdalen] praising the Liberal Arts

[ME Michaud]

Actually (the article’s in the journal Nature)
the phenomenon was world-wide!
-M

On Friday, June 1, 2018, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> I see. Agreed, though the literature you cite is from the Middle East, not
> primarily Europe per se (and my assumption is they’re referring to northern
> and western Europe, which may be incorrect). The curious/surprising thing
> to me was the 17:1 woman/man ratio, and how that was deduced by reading the
> human genome. It makes it surprising that polygamy developed (though again,
> not in northern and western Europe — in fact, maybe that’s why it DIDN’T
> develop there!): polyandry would make a lot more sense!
>
>