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I hope so. Humans have shown for millenia that they are unable to give in to certain urges. Some things are well worth fighting against, but in today's society

I hope so. Humans have shown for millenia that they are unable to give in to certain urges. Some things are well worth fighting against, but in today's society strict monogamy doesn't seem to pose a major evolutionary advantage (though I could be wrong). When Secret came out, I always assumed such a leak would occur, especially since it was linked to Facebook. So I only mostly posted fake secrets to troll people :-D I wonder if a certain level of mixing lies with reality will become the norm online to increase the doubt over information that leaks.

creshal 11y ago
> in today's society strict monogamy doesn't seem to pose a major evolutionary advantage (though I could be wrong). With the availability of reliable contraceptions (for both genders) and paternity tests, it has lost one of its main advantages: Ensuring that your offspring is really yours (for males) and that it won't have to compete with another mates offspring (for females).
netcan 11y ago
If you're going to biology, absolutely strict monogamy is not really part of our package. But, some sort of monogamy (or pairing) is almost certainly. Culture makes these rules, not biology and culture is pretty malleable in this regard. Your great grandmother might have had a much more forgiving reaction to this infidelity stuff as a lot of people today. She probably thought girls having extra marital relationships some lasting days and some lasting years (as is normal today) as immoral trollop behavior. Side note on evolutionary monogamy: A lot of birds are monogamous. A lot of foundational zoologists were Victorians so they saw eye-to-eye. There were a lot of studies of avian reproductive behavior for the entirety of the modern scientific period. Recently, DNA tests on nestlings revealed that birds cheat. The reason Victorians (and other later) rarely picked up on it is because they're so damn sneaky about it. It's a no no in bird marriages, but they still do it.

creshal 11y ago

> in today's society strict monogamy doesn't seem to pose a major evolutionary advantage (though I could be wrong). With the availability of reliable contraceptions (for both genders) and paternity tests, it has lost one of its main advantages: Ensuring that your offspring is really yours (for males) and that it won't have to compete with another mates offspring (for females).

netcan 11y ago

If you're going to biology, absolutely strict monogamy is not really part of our package. But, some sort of monogamy (or pairing) is almost certainly. Culture makes these rules, not biology and culture is pretty malleable in this regard. Your great grandmother might have had a much more forgiving reaction to this infidelity stuff as a lot of people today. She probably thought girls having extra marital relationships some lasting days and some lasting years (as is normal today) as immoral trollop behavior. Side note on evolutionary monogamy: A lot of birds are monogamous. A lot of foundational zoologists were Victorians so they saw eye-to-eye. There were a lot of studies of avian reproductive behavior for the entirety of the modern scientific period. Recently, DNA tests on nestlings revealed that birds cheat. The reason Victorians (and other later) rarely picked up on it is because they're so damn sneaky about it. It's a no no in bird marriages, but they still do it.