(April 2, 2018 at 6:23 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I have read numerous ''findings'' that men are ''biologically'' not ''wired'' to being monogamous, while women are. That women are more interested in finding that one, true mate to have offspring by, and men are more naturally inclined to want to have children with multiple women.
This could be true, but new studies show that women cheat as often as men, albeit for different reasons, perhaps. Either way, I think monogamy is more of a tribal/societal construct to keep order in various cultures.
This is another aspect of humans being neither a tournament species nor a non-tournament species.
In a tournament species, the males are generally larger than the females, mating in males is rare except for a couple of 'winners', the mating is non-monogamous, children are taken care of exclusively by the females, and females rarely abandon the young.
In non-tournament species, males and females are about the same size, mating is common for all males, both males and females raise the children, mating is monogamous (mostly), and females will abandon children (because males take care of them).
Humans are right in the middle on almost every characteristic. We just don't go by the usual classifications that work for other primate species (as well as many others).
