Reproductive skew
Subject in Life Sciences
Reproductive skew has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Modern Wisdom. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
David GearyEvolutionary psychologist, cognitive scientist, and professor at the University of Missouri
Geary states that reproductive skew among men is about three times that among women in hunter-gatherer societies, rising to about a hundredfold in early empires.
“Now that threefold variation in reproductive skew was amplified to about a hundred fold difference when we move into early empires”
Modern Wisdom: How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172 (Nov 5, 2026) · Listen from 17:37
Podcasts
- Modern Wisdom · 1 episode
Episodes
How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172Modern Wisdom · Nov 5, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Evolutionary psychologist David Geary tells Chris Williamson how male coalitional warfare, status competition, and technology shaped human brain evolution and modern behavior.