"OUR CHEATING HEARTS"

1. What is the thesis of the article? (One or two sentences only.)
   : The thesis of this article is that human specie is designed to have multiple mates—practicing polygyny— through natural selection (evolution).
   
2. In what ways are the strategies employed by men and women to pass on the next generation at odds?
   : The strategies employed by both male and female to pass on their genetic information is polygyny. For female, in order to produce the fertile offspring, they should find the healthy, clever male individual. However, female tends to cheat on her mate because she want a more fertile offspring, but also that female individual want parental care from her husband/mate. For male, they tend to cheat because the more they produce a child, the higher possibility for their genes to be passed on. So the strategy that humans use to expand their gene pool is being polygynous.
   
3. What conclusion does the article draw about monogamy?
   : The article states that monogamy, one life-long mate, is not natural for humans. It convinces us that the reason that can justify that is because being polygynous would enable us to spread our genes and then our genes could be passed on to our children. However, what is natural does not mean that it is the right thing to do. There are many moral issues involved. Also, there are many obstacles for people to maintain their marriage and monogamy: natural selection encourages people to cheat on their wives/husbands, humans’ minds are easily amendable against the monogamy, economic inequality, and etc.
   
4. In your own words explain the last paragraph of the article.
   : The last paragraph of the article to trying to inform us that everyone is not naturally moral, despite the fact that we could be. We have everything that would make us a moral person, but it actually depends on our decisions and actions.
   
5. What are you personal reactions to the article?
   : I would not contradict the article since the author mentioned the valid reasons for those claims. Evolution creates and shapes who we already are, so why couldn’t it make us polygynous. Being polygynous would exponentially spread ones’ genes and be able to pass it on to the next generation. Despite the fact that I absolutely disagree with polygamy or polygyny, I still agree that it is in the human nature to cheat so that their kinds could survive and reproduce. Toward the end of the article, it is mentioned very often that it depends on one’s ethic and morality rather than just natural selection. I do agree with that concept; it actually depends on each individual. And, cheating could not be justified by just evolution; ones cannot use it as the reason for fooling around.