On 17 April 2014 02:36, <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of it is motivated from females needing to survive and look after > their children. How much wealth, be it hunted game, or IPO stock options. > Unless the male is very wealthy, there is no advantage for the female to > share a mail, Some do, and they are the exception. There are logical > reasons why monogamy has succeeded, and polygamy and polyandry to recede. > This may be changing? Unless a man pair bonds with a women, and we had the > option, when you to have sex with multiple females, say within the same > month, we would opt for it. The version of planet Earth is not in this > universe, though, somewhere in Hugh Everett-ville. > > > Yes, polygamy can only work where food is plentiful etc, otherwise the monogamy genes will come to dominate when children need more than one parent to rear them successfully. If men can wander off and still propagate their genes, they will do so, because that becomes a successful strategy - as some men do, of course... This is supposed to account for the difference in sexual attitudes between hot and cold countries, although some would consider that racist / non-PC ... still, seems logical nevertheless.
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