[SirLinksalot]

"Some men cheat on their partners. So do some women. Now researchers say it is more than a wandering eye that might cause a woman to stray."

This conclusion was based on two studies of college men and women using questionnaires where the test group was asked how they felt (how scientific) about other men/women outside of their steady relationships.

There is a University study that suggests an evolutionary tendency toward infidelity during ovulation, which is the most fertile part of the menstrual cycle ( read the article ).

Among the conclusions are :

"Along those evolutionary lines, men more than women desire a variety of sexual partners because genes carrying that trait were passed along in men"

The one thing the article didn’t make clear is whether they actually analyzed genes responsible–if only indirectly–for “men more than women desir[ing] a variety of sexual partners” or if they’re just extrapolating an evolutionary reason for human behavior.

Is this the Selfish Gene ( see Dawkin's book ) in action ?

[Fido969]

I think this is another example of the libs trying to discredit the traditional family. If the family is destroyed (and they are well along the path there) it can be replaced with government.

Forget this "instinctict" rationalizations. We are not animals who follow every instinct to urinate, crap and copulate wherever and whenever the urge strikes us. We are more advanced then that.

Well, some of us are, anyway.

[Cagey]

This conclusion was based on two studies of college men and women

Oh yea, there's a great source for opinions on meaningful relationships. I'll make serious note of this study.

[Eagles Talon IV]

"Along those evolutionary lines, men more than women desire a variety of sexual partners because genes carrying that trait were passed along in men"

So if I get it on with the widow next door, this will get me off the hook? Sort of like "the devil made me do it" defense.

[101st-Eagle]

"With me the horrid doubt always arises, whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."-Darwin (quotes from D. Lack "Swifts in a Tower").

Question: So why would a Darwinist Absolutist care if he cheated? Is *guilt* esoteric or universal? Like ethics, how does it work in to the theory as being a greater good for the species even though an abstract?