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Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 3,299 Send Message	Len of the Chilterns	Report	19 Jan 2010 22:44
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 3,299 Send Message	Well so much for romance. Researchers from University College London and Harvard Univeristy have developed a new theory the explain why men and women decided to get married as reported in New Scientist. In contrast to the traditional theory that marriage was created to support religion and stop men fighting over women, they had actually suggested that men got married to ensure that their offspring were in fact carrying their own genes and to provide their true heirs with a valuable inheritance, rather than one shared with multiple siblings from other mothers. Furthermore, the researchers explained that as cultivation intensified and land became more scare, farming a plot that isn’t big enough to feed your family was not a viable existence any longer. One of the researchers, from UCL, has suggested that cultures have adopted religions that fit their monogamous or polygamous values, instead of the other way round.