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From: sss3@ukc.ac.uk (S.S.Sturrock)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <6369@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Nov 90 10:38:53 GMT
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Reply-To: sss3@ukc.ac.uk (S.S.Sturrock)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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Just to put the cat among the pigeons, couldn't women be naturally
monogamous and men polygamous, after all there are plenty of other
ways in which women show behavioural differences to men.

Besides, it's not in the mans interest to be monogamous since he
is basically here to spread his genes as far as possible thus
maintaining a diverse gene pool within the population.

Women on the other hand are more worried about bringing up children,
so it is in her interest to grab a man and hold him to provide the
protection that she and her offspring require.

I am making no moral judgements, I leave that up to the theologists,
however the view is possible, although I don't necessarily subscribe
to it myself.

Sorry if someone has already suggested this.

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Shane Sturrock, Biol Lab, University of Kent, Canterbury, Great Britain

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