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From: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.men,soc.women,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Rape a reproductive advantage?
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Date: 12 Jan 88 01:10:25 GMT
References: <517@gtx.com> <5129@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2201@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <616@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
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In article <616@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lindsay@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>Monogamy is a reasonable strategy for living and for child raising. Its wide
>presence in both birds and mammals demonstrates that it has a fundamental
>advantage. But, this implies the existence of bachelors, who will not
>reproduce at all, unless they rape.

Hmmm...  That presumes that males outnumber females -- which certainly is not
true in either human societies, or in most mammals.  Unless, that is, you 
mean "polygeny" when you speak of "monogamy".

I suggest you read the recent research of behaviours of large groups of chimps
(In a recent National Geographic or Discovery, I believe), which, along with 
the observations of chimp warfare, proposes a rationale for a role of 
"bachelor" in the survival of the family's genes.

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Oleg Kiselev  --  oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg
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