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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I think you are wrong about the nature of monogamy, especially as it has allowed females to provide for their offspring. The study I was thinking of contrasted the different evolutionary benefits to males and females of monogamy vs. having multiple reproductive partners if you look at the evolutionary "goal" of getting your genetic material into the next generation. Females benefited from one long term partner providing material support to allowing offspring to reach reproductive age. Males benefited from getting the sperm out there to as many different females as they could.
How in the world could you imagine that there is no legitimate scientific knowledge in the area of mating habits and their benefits?
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None of this translates to women being biologically inclined toward monogamy.
Everyone has read or heard about that ONE study. It has been used to support everything from patriarchy to male promiscuity to why women should stay in the home to why women should be paid less. The only thing it REALLY supports is that women are able to be impregnated and men are not.
And here's the spoon ("where's the spoon? aha!"): Women don't have to be monogamous to get pregnant and pregnant women don't have to be monogamous. Dammmmmmmn dammmmmmmn dammmmmmmmmn!!!!