<story><title>Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has-an-uncomfortable-truth-been-suppressed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elchief</author><text>&amp;gt; the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it&lt;p&gt;In early humans only the top 16% of males mated&lt;p&gt;Most people mate now, due to religious&amp;#x2F;society-enforced monogamy&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2833377&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2833377&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&amp;quot;16%&amp;quot; does not appear in that paper, and it&amp;#x27;s arguing based on inherited chromosomes: inherently that&amp;#x27;s going to be confounded by deaths in childhood or childbirth, etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?</title><url>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/has-an-uncomfortable-truth-been-suppressed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elchief</author><text>&amp;gt; the idea that some huge percentage of males are simply not desirable enough (as we shall see, the paper requires this percentage to be over 50) to have a chance of reproducing bears no relation to the world as we know it&lt;p&gt;In early humans only the top 16% of males mated&lt;p&gt;Most people mate now, due to religious&amp;#x2F;society-enforced monogamy&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2833377&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC2833377&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomK32</author><text>Looking at my grandfather&amp;#x27;s generation, two of his brothers fell in the war, another two never had children of their own at died of old age in the same (big farm) house they were born and living all their life. math checks out.</text></comment>