…and not those belonging to Sydney Sweeney, either. This is serious stuff — and before you consign it to the “TL;DR” trope, allow me to draw you to this thought-provoking couple of paragraphs:
The development of farming and then animal herding greatly increased the number of humans—which continued to have evolutionary consequences for our species—and created productive assets (farms and animal herds) worth fighting over. Successful male teams (typically organised as clans) wiped out unsuccessful male teams and took their women as spoils.
Hence, there is a dramatic bottleneck in male lineages but not in female lineages. This pattern stopped with the development of chiefdoms and especially states, though not so much on the Steppes, whose states were more like super-chiefdoms and where intense competition over resources (and women) continued.
The whole article should be required reading for all faculty members in every university in the West.