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Boys naturally outnumber girls at birth and until modern medicine childbirth had a very high mortality rate. The sex ratio of most societies was probably skewed heavily towards males. How did pre-modern civilizations deal with this contingent of men that would never be able to reproduce?

by /u/percevalgalaaz in /r/AskHistorians

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