It always amuses me that in discussions about polygyny, men contributors always assume that they would be the man with the many wives. The larger the number of wives per husband, the greater the probability that most men would have no partner at all.

Its like memories of past lives. Very few people remember the strings of lives lived as oppressed peasants (or, in the context of this thread, eunuchs), but many feel that they were someone significant.

The difference in the number of males and females born is slight, and balanced by the vulnerability of male children to early death. That is excluding the effect of female infanticide. Otherwise, the proportions are pretty close to equal.

Penny