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I think that there still are very high status men in this world who get away with 20 "wives." Consider, for example, the royalty in Saudi Arabia. My point was it's rare now, and that it was equally rare then. Or do you have stats on it?


There certainly are such high status men. But compared to the world population, and considering they reign over only very small parts of the world, are they even statistically significant?


Yes, that is my point: were they ever statistically relevant?


Isn't Genghis Khan thought to have left a rather significant mark on the genetics of a region?




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