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There are lots of things that we supposedly all know from life experience that are completely and totally false.

On the point about male's appetite for variety and novelty, life experience can give you enough of a hunch that this is biologically innate, and not cultural. Stacks and Stacks of books on human history, recent tabloids, and the NSA's archive of everyone's web browser histories can pretty much confirm this hunch for you if you're still not convinced

I'm not really arguing that specific point, I'm just saying common knowledge and life experience mean absolutely nothing in the context of anthropology--or any science, as a matter of fact.

And the fact that males have been in the dominant position culturally for effectively all of recorded time implies what cultural influence? That males have had the ability to choose partner(s) for so long has affected a lot, but implies nothing about biological predispositions to "novelty".

Also consider that male-polygamy not too far back in time for much of the western world was relatively expected ("mistresses"), but female-polygamy often meant death. That sort of influence tends to leave some lasting impressions on a culture.

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