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From: rqdms@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Dennis Stockert)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.142158.15961@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Nov 90 14:21:58 GMT
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In article <0093FF47.05EDD520@aclcb.purdue.edu>, swihart@aclcb.purdue.edu (Dr. B) writes...

>  I just began reading this recently.  Have you defined monogamous?  How?
> 
>  It doesn't seem to me that having had an affair or one-night fling during a 
>  marriage doesn't disqualify a person as monogamous for the rest of his/her
>  life. 
> 

If it was defined, it was before I joined the thread... my own definition 
is simply an inherent tendency to mate for life, as some animal species do. 
I tend to agree with you that it's not an all or nothing proposition, but I'll 
bet that you'll get plenty of replies arguing that one fling *IS* "grounds for 
disqualification...


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