{"id":13077,"date":"2015-01-19T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2016-02-25T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T11:38:41","slug":"when-women-are-few-men-settle-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/when-women-are-few-men-settle-down\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN WOMEN ARE FEW, MEN SETTLE DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13078\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/136-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a study, a man\u2019s fidelity depends on the availability of women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When women are rare, men respond by desiring long-term committed relationships with a single partner,&#8221; University of Utah anthropologist and study lead author Ryan Schacht told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When women are hard to find, the best strategy is to find one and stick with her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, men would settle down than chase skirts when the competition for women is high due to women being few to avoid losing out totally.<\/p>\n<p>The research is based on a 16-month study of members of the 13,000-strong Makushi tribal community of hunters, fishermen and farmers in southwest Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men, when women were abundant, were the cads we often expect them to be. They had many sexual partners, and yet still wanted more!&#8221; continues Schacht.<\/p>\n<p>But this changed in areas where men were in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the sex ratio became more male-biased, men&#8217;s interest in short-term relationships waned,&#8221; said Schacht.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the journal <em>Royal Society Open Science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Phil<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[79],"tags":[2825,2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24088,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions\/24088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}