No insanity, it wasn't the norm, it was abnormal. If Polygamy was the norm what it would mean is that the vast majority of men never married or had mates at all. That isn't the case. The very reason people have been able to multiply as they have and develop as they have is based around the societal structure of monogamy.
And it's also a fallacy to say there are more women than men. There are but AFTER a certain age, as men die earlier than women. Actually, men and women are pretty much 50/50 at the age that they start to mate.
If you look at primates, they live in complicated societal structure of pretty much 50/50 males & females. Now they don't practice monogamy, but they don't practice polygamy either. All members of the tribe have sex with each other as it's considered a way to bond. Obviously humans can't do that because we experience jealousy as well as having the mental ability to realize that that kind of structure won't work once you start getting into a settled civilization based around agriculture.
Again, just because the sexual desire to "spread your seed" is there, doesn't mean we are naturally polygamous. We owe our society to the strong familiar bonds created by monogamy.
No insanity, it wasn't the norm, it was abnormal. If Polygamy was the norm what it would mean is that the vast majority of men never married or had mates at all. That isn't the case. The very reason people have been able to multiply as they have and develop as they have is based around the societal structure of monogamy.
And it's also a fallacy to say there are more women than men. There are but AFTER a certain age, as men die earlier than women. Actually, men and women are pretty much 50/50 at the age that they start to mate.
If you look at primates, they live in complicated societal structure of pretty much 50/50 males & females. Now they don't practice monogamy, but they don't practice polygamy either. All members of the tribe have sex with each other as it's considered a way to bond. Obviously humans can't do that because we experience jealousy as well as having the mental ability to realize that that kind of structure won't work once you start getting into a settled civilization based around agriculture.
Again, just because the sexual desire to "spread your seed" is there, doesn't mean we are naturally polygamous. We owe our society to the strong familiar bonds created by monogamy.