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Scarce men are likelier to scram.
When young men are scarce, they’re more likely to play the field then to propose. A new study has shown that marriage rates in places where women outnumber men are less likely to rise, as the young men feel less pressure to settle down because more women compete for their affections. But when those men reach their 30s, the reverse is true and proportionately more older men are married in areas where women outnumber men. These finding have been made by Daniel Kruger, a University of Michigan researcher who studies evolution and how it relates to contemporary behaviour. The findings have been reported in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology and Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
