In Mother Nature, Sarah Hrdy stressed the irreliable nature male provision in some societies as a motive for women to be more promiscuousis. She wrote that when men couldn't be counted on as providers for their children, women try more short term and more promiscuous strategies. Since men often a…
In Mother Nature, Sarah Hrdy stressed the irreliable nature male provision in some societies as a motive for women to be more promiscuousis. She wrote that when men couldn't be counted on as providers for their children, women try more short term and more promiscuous strategies. Since men often acted opportunistically and gave their meat to another woman they hoped to recruit as a new lover, women needed to spread their risks too. Sarah Hrdy wrote that current African American women are much in the same situation: Since many of them can't hope for one man to stick around until his child grows up, they instead work on finding a series of providers since that it better than no provider.
I want to read that multiple fathers book!
In Mother Nature, Sarah Hrdy stressed the irreliable nature male provision in some societies as a motive for women to be more promiscuousis. She wrote that when men couldn't be counted on as providers for their children, women try more short term and more promiscuous strategies. Since men often acted opportunistically and gave their meat to another woman they hoped to recruit as a new lover, women needed to spread their risks too. Sarah Hrdy wrote that current African American women are much in the same situation: Since many of them can't hope for one man to stick around until his child grows up, they instead work on finding a series of providers since that it better than no provider.