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I think the bottleneck here would be the female. Regardless of how many different mates one had it is still the female that has one offspring, or a litter of offspring at a time. Thinking about birds, which have both monogamous and polygamous species, or just mammals in general, one can not really see any great difference in evolutionary processes except sexually selective strategies.

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