There's no pool of women who go unmarried so there's no selection against taste in men that cause spinsterhood. No society until the modern world was stupid enough to allow women to freely choose mates. Without women dying without issue, you don't get selection.
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Only if her attraction matters for her mate choice which historically it didn't. Her husband was chosen by her father. Repeating: no (surviving) human society was stupid enough to allow free female mate choice.
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Europe? AYFKM? Marriages weren't literally arranged but acceptable suitors were picked by fathers. Jane Austen novels have to go out of their way to have sick and absent fathers to make the novels more interesting than "got introduced to my future husband today".
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Lots of invisible social facts go into that to create the practical meaning of a legal text - look at the formal rules / informal knowledge around contemporary mating. In this specific case you're talking about a social change and, yes, a real filter. 1/3
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Marriage age rises in the 16th century - leaving a changed population b/c of differential survival but the cause of the difference? * Selected for longer term planning in mating vs * Later marriages are for biologically unsuccessful people who left fewer descendants 2/3pic.twitter.com/PIE5MBbcB1
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We know from Clark's investigation that what happened was that the lower classes were getting genetically replaced - those were the ones getting married later due to lack of wealth. The filter was *filtering out* the poorer / later marrying in favor of the wealthier arranged.pic.twitter.com/cX2XoRFigz
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of course, these are the places where female mate preference matters the *least* and so isn't a selective filter for women's taste in men.
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