Xref: utzoo sci.bio:4054 alt.romance:5643 soc.men:24043 soc.women:30177 soc.singles:74386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!shorty.engin.umich.edu!milamber From: milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell) Newsgroups: sci.bio,alt.romance,soc.men,soc.women,soc.singles Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous? Message-ID: <1990Dec4.071540.1841@engin.umich.edu> Date: 4 Dec 90 07:15:40 GMT References: <1990Nov22.191009.20772@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Nov23.015509.14871@massey.ac.nz> <1990Nov23.174050.10587@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 25 In article <1990Nov23.174050.10587@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> newman@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Bill Newman) writes: [...] >It is true that non-monogamous behavior is seldom observed in birds. >However, with the advent of fast and cheap DNA "fingerprinting" techniques >for paternity testing, it has become possible for us to >find out what the birds are doing when they think no one is watching, [...] There is someone "out there", right now, whose job it is to apply the latest biological technology to find out whether birds are secretly fooling around when we're not looking. Scary world. Sure am glad my species won evolution.. > Bill Newman > newman@theory.tn.cornell.edu -- +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+ | // Daryl S. Cantrell | These opinions are | | |\\\ milamber@caen.engin.umich.edu | shared by all of // | | |// Welcome to the Machine. | Humanity. \X/ | +---------------------------------------+----------------------------+ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com