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Re: Male Parental Investment
Barbara Saunders (saunders@sybase.com)
Fri, 7 Jul 1995 22:00:22 GMT
In article <1995Jul5.221718.10507@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> bentj93@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Tim Benham) writes:
>In <Pine.A32.3.91.950702182209.37582G-100000@seminole.gate.net> liz <liz@gate.net> wrote:
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>: In fact, if you are going to talk about evolution, do it with the facts.
>: The history of the world is not filled with monogamously-paired couples,
>: but with men who had sex with lots of different women. A man who was
>: *not* monogamous was far, far more likely to have *more* offspring.
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>I'd be interested to see your sources for this claim. Here's what
>some anthropologists and psychologists have to say about it:
Technical point: "monogamously-paired couple" does not necessarily
mean *sexually exclusive couples. Pair-bonding in living, forming
social interactions, etc., doesn't mean limiting *sex to that couple.
Barbara
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