Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.