Well, for a start, what %age of western males are 100% faithful? It's back
to my two strategies for reproduction again: sleep around or invest all
effort in your kids.
What you SEE is a distribution curve:
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0% 50 100% Sleep Around
100 50 0% Monogamous
Okay, so the maximum's at 90% Monogamous/10% Sleep Around. The selection
pressure in favour of memes promoting monogamy that I can see is... the
social groups that enact those memes strongly will tend to be less held back
by fgihting between members over mates than social groups which don't.
And yes, I know that there isn't an amazing load of fighting over mates
going on, even though the pro-monogamy institutions of marriage etc seem to
be waning a little, but then:
(a) Maybe there's more than there used to be
(b) Maybe it's masked because our society has loads of "fighting is bad,
full stop" memes kicking around.
Comments?
Dave Pape
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