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Are women the beneficiary of monogamy?

Posted by: zeebees on: April 9, 2010

Robert Wright in The Moral Animal illustrates that, in a patriarchal society, monogamy is really there to warrant the equality for men, not women. Excerpts: “Consider a crude and offensive but analytically useful model…. One thousand men and one thousand women are ranked in terms of their desirability as mates … in a monogamous society [...]


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