> There's a stock answer for monogamous marriage This article is just supposition. "Monogamy forms the basis of complex social networks." As opposed to polygam

> There's a stock answer for monogamous marriage This article is just supposition. "Monogamy forms the basis of complex social networks." As opposed to polygamy...? "Females preferred reliable providers to aggressive competitors." Pretty impressive how their attitudes were preserved in the fossil record. The article is pretty clearly written from the perspective that polygamy is weird and unnatural, noting that we have an "imperfect record " of monogamy - as if societies where this was the norm were a mistake. The article goes on to make it clear this is a controversial idea, not one that has wide acceptance in this community. If you have a better article or a better argument to present I'll check it out, but I don't see why I would accept this argument. > But the short version of the answer is that genes have only very indirect control over the brains they build, and sometimes those brains can have a mind of their own ... > But the dynamics of human societies are off-the-charts complicated and non-linear, so who knows? I think you've conceded the point.