Against polygamy

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

I took a cultural anthropology class; this is fact.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a week. Thanks.

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

the human mother did not collect food/hunt while taking care of this offspring.

What about women of the Aeta tribe in the Phillipines? They hunted with great success. And a woman that has newly given birth can hunt, she only needs an elder and/or a lactating woman to stay behind to care for the infant.

Also, what would prevent a woman from collecting food while caring for a child, no matter how freshly hatched?

Originally Posted by freshnesschronic

We are not a mate-and-leave-your-offspring type of species, and because of that marriage has developed universally.

I don't see where you're getting that those marriages were 1:1.

Be careful with universalities. There's always a counter-example.