This always was, and is, the natural order: Women want serial monogamy. She wants the highest-value man she can get, all to herself, until a better man wants her. Men want polygyny. He wants to collect as many high-value women that desire him, and will follow him, as he can.
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Replying to @buck_tulson @CovfefeAnon
Which is why the false paternity rate < 2% everywhere in the Western world, going back at minimum hundreds of years.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @buck_tulson
Men have a stronger interest in preventing women from acting on those desires but since women almost all reproduce their desire to do so hasn't been selected out. Men win that contest when society doesn't break down.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @buck_tulson
There's an even simpler hypothesis.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @buck_tulson
You have a massive selective event for men ~10k years ago. There's no such selective pressure for women. There's no mtDNA selective bottleneck to radically change women's nature so they get minor tweaks to the old behavioral program which is still there and ready to activate.
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My argument isn't the one you discussed here - that sexual dimorphism in behavior developed, it's that women have an older behavioral program (play men against each other) that got tweaked (be faithful to a tribe-backed husband) http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003689.html …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @buck_tulson
The behavior under discussion doesn't exist today ( in the populations looked at - mostly European) and there's good evidence that it's been rare for centuries. Simplest explanation: the idea is just wrong.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @buck_tulson
What behavior do you think doesn't exist? Women absolutely are polygynous today. It shows up anecdotally in "polyamory" where men share a woman, it shows up common experience where top men have harems of women that also have rotations of men and it shows up formally in GSSpic.twitter.com/xBq8nIVSuZ
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Actually meant to say "polyandrous" above but women modern women are both polyandrous and polygynous - shared by men with whom they're not exclusive.
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