Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!homxa!carson From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: male/female differences Message-ID: <610@homxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 17:51:37 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.610 Posted: Thu Jan 10 17:51:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:32:07 EST References: <74@mot.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 Umm, maybe I have a weird set of friends, but I seem to run into a lot of men who want very much to settle down with one specific woman, and women who are very suspicious of the whole idea (We just ain't very far along evolutionarily, I guess :-).... Seriously, since making the most of each offspring (ie making sure you gets grandkids) is at least as good a survival strategy as having lots of kids, it makes sense to have 2 parents raising kids so man has much more stake in monogamy than woman (don't want wrong genes to survive...) and worries more about the, umm, what bird is it that lays eggs in other birds' nests so it won't have to raise the kids????...it's just taken us poor women a LONG time to figure out the silly lies about the "advantages" of monogamy.... P.