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Originally posted by FHwku
monogamy is a learned behavior. even the rare cases of monogamy in the animal kingdom, like the elephant shrews, are not monogamous. shrews are more latent pair bonding than being monogamous. if you did a trading spouses Nature, they'd probably behave the same way with the new shrew. even monogamous shore birds have "infidelity."
the difference between us and them is emotion.
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Moreover, some creatures have pheremones that induce estrus for reproduction... A human produced pheremone has not been unequivocally shown--but there are aphrodesiacs to take their place...
My main issue is providing a flawed logic in making things that occur naturally as the justification for why some human behavior occurs. One just cannot compare the two. Humans do not operate with the same physiological system as other primates and I do not know why that is... There are similarities. But the differences outweigh the similarities based on greater issues--i.e. smelting ores to build large constructions (maybe) that make the comparison to animals a piss poor argument and judgement call...