Given the controversial nature of the topic, I figured I should put this in here.
https://medium.com/@Capioca/polygynous-m...e9d172d68c
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/...1507151112
The short and sweet of it is that other factors such as rainfall amounts have actually been skewing results. Which really strikes me as idiotic to not take the general wealth and food production in the region into account. An analogy to this would be performing a study of water quality in Mexico and flat-out concluding that it's terrible all around without taking into account the economic wealth in each region. Or, for a closer fit, comparing the birthrates of whales in the Pacific vs that of the Atlantic without taking into account the availability of food.
https://medium.com/@Capioca/polygynous-m...e9d172d68c
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/...1507151112
The short and sweet of it is that other factors such as rainfall amounts have actually been skewing results. Which really strikes me as idiotic to not take the general wealth and food production in the region into account. An analogy to this would be performing a study of water quality in Mexico and flat-out concluding that it's terrible all around without taking into account the economic wealth in each region. Or, for a closer fit, comparing the birthrates of whales in the Pacific vs that of the Atlantic without taking into account the availability of food.