Timeline for Would a sentient species be able to thrive when mating means the death of the male partner?
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| Jan 20, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | John | @subrunner 2 births per couple is not replacement it is a a population crash in a preindustrial species. Injury, predation, desease, ect will claim a large percentage of your population each generation. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 20:34 | vote | accept | JGaines | ||
| May 6, 2016 at 19:33 | comment | added | Josh Gagnon | It seems quite likely that rather than marry one man and mate with another, the women may marry each other and use a man simply as donor material. This already happens in our society, though obviously in a smaller percentage and with a lot less male corpses. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 17:02 | comment | added | Michael | @SteveJessop "Still a better love story than Twilight" | |
| May 6, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @subrunner That's true, so long as you don't have deaths from anything else in life =) That ratio is pretty difficult to maintain in an evolution setting. Once a sentient species takes hold, however, that ratio could be enough. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 13:56 | comment | added | Bryan McClure | I agree with you at first males would be little more than slaves what cultures evolve. Once males were given rights, sex of become highly ritualized. It's not unlikely than that something similar to marriage would evolve remember that person who have sex with has to be good enough to die for literally. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "that's about as complicated of a relationship as you can get" -- I've seen worse on Reddit relationships. | |
| May 6, 2016 at 8:21 | comment | added | subrunner | 4 children is more than enough -- assuming that the male-to-female ratio is skewed in favor of the males. If 3 of 4 children are males, and you have an average of 2 children per pregnancy, then you can continue your race with only 2 pregnancies per female (and have 1 additional male left over) | |
| May 6, 2016 at 4:10 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |