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From: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
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Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.131611.674@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 90 13:16:11 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.175532.9407@pmafire.UUCP>
Reply-To: teexmmo@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
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In article <1990Oct24.175532.9407@pmafire.UUCP> reiser@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Reiser) writes:
>Without cultural training would human being by there biological nature
>be monogamous or is it culturally ingrained from childhood?
>

An excellent discussion of this topic is given in Elaine Morgan's book
'Descent of Woman'.

Her conclusion is 'no', based on comparison with the truly monogamous
species.