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In article <26937@cs.yale.edu> bloom-debbie@cs.yale.edu (Debbie Bloom) writes:
>I learned in a psych class once that biologically men want to mate with many
>women to maximize the # offspring they can pass their genes to.  But women
>want to mate with one man because they want support *after* they have the
>baby (so they want him to stick around).  At least, I think it was that.

That's a fine strategy under the *assumption* that the quantity of offsprings
in more important than the quality of offsprings.  If you want at least
one offspring of top quality then having a different father to each child
increases the probability of at least one lucky combination of genes.