Understanding but not...

[siead_lietrathua]

wait, humans lived in polygamy structures well into the recorded biblical years. it's just the recorded ones were mostly one man with a bunch of women. (look at some of the harem/wife counts in the bible among kings)
even after being married in "monogamy" many men still took on lovers, concubines, etc without repercussions until the feminist uprising. and a fair number of men still do.
only women were made to suffer consequences from having affairs. and that didnt really stop them either.

edit: i dont have links to verify, but i got most of the data from a book called "the humble little condom" which goes into the history of birth control through recorded history and talks a lot about infidelity and prostitution through the ages as well.

[jackfaire]

I'm sensing we're working on vastly different time scales here. I was working from Homo Erectus to Sapien. Which is where the real shift from polygamy to monogamous pair bonding seems to have occurred.

Also, primates don't falcon punch, they just kill or eat their rival's offspring >.>

I am talking precivilization back when we were living caves and the time often referred to by some women as, "proof that men cheat cuz they were all nailing every girl they could"

[Gravekeeper]

wait, humans lived in polygamy structures well into the recorded biblical years. it's just the recorded ones were mostly one man with a bunch of women. (look at some of the harem/wife counts in the bible among kings)
even after being married in "monogamy" many men still took on lovers, concubines, etc without repercussions until the feminist uprising. and a fair number of men still do.
only women were made to suffer consequences from having affairs. and that didnt really stop them either.

Again though, don't confuse marriage with biological monogamy/polygamy. Marriage is a cultural and often political construct. See my previous point.

I am talking precivilization back when we were living caves and the time often referred to by some women as, "proof that men cheat cuz they were all nailing every girl they could"

You have to go a long, long, long, long way back to get to that point. Like 4ish million years back. To when we were literally apes that just happened to start walking upright and hadn't begun to develop larger brains yet. Let along any sort of language or anything. In which case our social structure would have been likened to gorillas, yes. Gorillas are mainly polygamous with some monogamy. Females are monogamous, but males are not typically, though some groups are. But the male doesn't bang everyone he sees than wanker off either, the alpha male leads and protects the troop. So modern men that nail every girl they can are still just being pecker driven jackasses. -.-

Which, again, me thinks that biology gets scapegoated for jackassery by some people.