>>510950588
it`s actually proof that monogamy is required for high level civilization. most of the world population was not living within civilization a few thousand years ago there were at best only a few civilized areas and likely in those areas the number of men reproducing was higher.

female elk choose the male elk with the largest antlers. these large antlers were metabolically expensive and got caught in trees easily. when humans arrived they found the irish elk easy prey. the species was not able to adapt to the times because only big antler chad elk got to breed. they went extinct. natural selection is stupid sometimes and so are human women

>>509947345
exactly so

>>Historically, its extinction has been attributed to the encumbering size of the antlers, a "maladaptation" making fleeing through forests especially difficult for males while being chased by human hunters,[13] or being too taxing nutritionally when the vegetation makeup shifted.[33] In these scenarios, sexual selection by does for stags with large antlers would have contributed to decline