September 1, 2009, Natalie Angier, Skipping Spouse to Spouse Isn’t Just a Man’s Game, By this conventional evolutionary psychology script, the man who skips from one nubile spouse to another over time is, like the sultan who hoards the local maidenry in a single convenient location, simply seeking to “maximize his reproductive fitness,†to sire as many children as possible with as many wives as possible.
