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In article <4836@lure.latrobe.edu.au> ECSGRT@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin, Electronic Engineering) writes:
>In article <1990Oct26.000754.24765@odin.corp.sgi.com>, milt@sgi.com (Milton Tinkoff) writes:
>> In article <1990Oct24.175532.9407@pmafire.UUCP> reiser@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Reiser) writes:
>>>Without cultural training would human being by there biological nature
>>>be monogamous or is it culturally ingrained from childhood?
>> 
>> I think it is culturally ingrained.  Men can impregnate as many fertile
>> women as they can have sex with.  This allows men to 'spread their DNA
>> around' as much as they can.  Women, on the other hand can only bear one
>> child at a time.  Therefore it is evolutionarily(?) advantageous for a
>> man not to be monogamous. 

Yes but...
if a man 'spreads his DNA around' and all his chidren die, that is a
losing strategy.  In nature, if a man stays with a woman at least as long
as she needs his help, that will greatly increase the chances that his
will child will live and live to reproduce.
 
ann h.