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dmurraytoday at 9:23 AM0 repliesview on HN

This doesn't follow. In animal societies where males are useless apart from their reproductive value, males are still produced at approximately 1:1. This is evolution optimizing for the reproductive success of the individual, not of the population, and is called Fisher's Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle