Despotism, Social Evolution, and Differential Reproduction Quotes

“Again, the Tiwi are the classic case; old men retained a virtual monopoly over nubile women. Rather like Hamadryas baboons (Rummer, 1968), they took them on as children. As a result, they not infrequently widowed them. Older, widowed women were the only wives of which a young Tiwi man was generally able to avail himself. Until he was in his late thirties, it was unlikely that any father-in-law would consider him worthy of being bequeathed a younger daughter (Hart and Pilling, 1960).”
― Laura L. Betzig, Despotism, Social Evolution, and Differential Reproduction