The Problem With the Argument That We're Hard-Wired to Be Promiscuous
"[The] basic logic is that … human beings are not naturally monogamous but rather have been explicitly designed by natural selection to seek out 'extra-pair copulatory partners'." The difficulty "is simply the fact that we've evolved to empathize with other people's suffering, including the suffering of the people we'd betray by putting our affable genitals to their evolved promiscuous use." Scientific American Mind 08/25/10

Posted August 25, 2010 09:38 PM