An “Evolutionary Biologist” was arguing on Skinner’s Opinionated on Friday night that the male who spreads his genes furthest will be the most successful. Ergo males seek to mate with as many females as possible. Females on the other hand being only able to conceive ever 9months at most and investing a very great deal in their offspring can’t afford to be so carefree. They must be choosy. This is the origin of “female choice” which this blog has investigated before I think. The female has a dilemma. Does she sleep with the Lethario to ensure that her children become Letharios as well. Or, does she form a bond with a more reliable male who can support her children.
The genetic evidence is that a few men are Letharios and the majority are faithful, while most women are unfaithful with those Letharios. Now this fits the logic in 1001 Nights (Sheherezard).
What seems to happen the Evolutionary Biologist was arguing is that females form a bond with a reliable male and then sleep around to ensure that they get genes in with the successful Letharios too. This does seem to fit the reality.
However he has forgotten something. For Mallard ducks, in which extra-pair copulations are most prevalent, the males end up guarding the females from impregnation by other males. This is exactly the logic argued later in this blog for males protecting their women from unfaithfulness so that they can be sure that their children are theirs. This leads to the institution of marriage. As best-man in a few days I am traditionally there to fight off other men laying claim to the bride.
In Hero terms the institution of marriage – which the Legend of the Battle of Troy brings out too where the failed suitors of Helen formed an alliance to protect her – forms to end the state of war with males fighting each other endlessly for breeding rights with women. A species that fights itself this much to breed would just go exitinct.
There seems to be a belief in today’s society that “marriage” is an outdated institution. Maybe as I always argue with revolutionaries we should understand exactly why things are the way they are before we try to change them. Most revolutionaries become revolutionary because they are too stupid to understand – look at me ! as I seek to understand even the most basic reasons for why things are the way they are. Once we understand why things are the way they are then we are likely to not want to change them!
A circular argument previously noted in females opens up because whatever female choice dominates (by accident) in the next generation will becomes the choice that females need to make. There is no reason for what a female chooses other than to follow the crowd genetically.
So males actually guard their females to ensure that they produce their children. This is why females feel that marriage is an abusive construction. Yet at the same time they welcome support for their children because the children of supportive families will be less but prosper further than those of single parent families with half the resources. The evolutionary biologist then was making a social point in the end then by suggesting that there was reason in “free love” when actually this is a strategy that ends up with capital retribution for both wife and lover. There is no greater sin for a woman than to be seen to be untrustworthy by men – for who is going to have children and spend time with a woman who cannot guarantee that they are your children! Such women become out casts and their children the lowest social level. The men who sire those children are equally failed therefore and as a result it is not a good strategy at all it seems to me.
So there are reasons for why things are exactly why they are.
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