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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
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Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.144041.12400@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:40:41 GMT
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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?
>

I have not ever checked this out...but I have been told that human
beings are probably not naturally monogamous, and that one of the 
indicators of this is the size discrepancy between the male and
the female of the species, which is supposedly common in 
non-monogamous species.
 
Gerald