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So, do people think that from an evolutionary point of view, humans are built to be monogamous or polyamorous? Were we designed to spend 60+ years with the one partner? Is monogamy something that is encoded in our genes as a species, or just a product of society? |
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Everyones different.Its whether they want to or not.DNA makes no difference to it.We evolve naturally as life and time goes ahead but its circumstances and choices.
Go back 20 years ago in ireland divorce wasnt an option...it is now so numbers increase.There was no sex sites 50 years ago...access to sex etc is bigger than it ever was...tinder etc..
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"So, do people think that from an evolutionary point of view, humans are built to be monogamous or polyamorous? Were we designed to spend 60+ years with the one partner? Is monogamy something that is encoded in our genes as a species, or just a product of society?"
Society.
You're responding and living to the way the society you're born into currently moulds you..... After all its only 60+ years that you function for not 10,000 which is needed for evolution to have proper changes. |
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"Everyones different.Its whether they want to or not.DNA makes no difference to it.We evolve naturally as life and time goes ahead but its circumstances and choices.
Go back 20 years ago in ireland divorce wasnt an option...it is now so numbers increase.There was no sex sites 50 years ago...access to sex etc is bigger than it ever was...tinder etc..
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Well DNA does make a difference. Everything we say, think and do is guided in some way by our DNA including our breeding habits. Eg, we aspire to mate with other humans. It's not because society tells us to, its an instinctual human behaviour that's deeply ingrained in our genes.
Anotomically modern humans have been in their current form for the over 100,000 years. And when we are born we still share the exact same instinctual behaviour as our ancestors.
before society guides our way of thinking, would we be naturally monogamous or non monogamous animals?
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"So, do people think that from an evolutionary point of view, humans are built to be monogamous or polyamorous? Were we designed to spend 60+ years with the one partner? Is monogamy something that is encoded in our genes as a species, or just a product of society?"
From an evolutionary viewpoint, the human species is not predominantly monogamous, going on a majority of scientific research.
Monogamy is mostly pushed on us and enforced by society.
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