The Wahman Kang
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Assuming the article is accurate, this shows how ridiculous the notion that a tribe/community only needs a few men to survive because the women are the reproductive bottleneck (this notion is used by many including many non-feminist men to justify male disposability and justify gynocentrism). Such a tribe gets wiped out by a tribe with more men. Reproduction is far from the only matter of importance when it comes to human communities. In almost any matter apart from reproduction, men are more valuable than women, so when it comes to survival in competition with other communities, a tribe allowing their men to mostly die out is a disaster that usually leads to extinction.
The reproductive bottleneck is never going to be the rate at which a woman is physically capable of producing children anyway, unless the sex ratio is skewed in favour of the men. Because it's not the two year turnaround from conception to weaning that is the limiting factor, it's your capacity to support and train the child until they are old enough to do more work than they create.