MrMind comments on November 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion
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Really, can you show me where?
You left out a few important ones:
3. A man can potentially impregnate many women.
4. Having a man to help raise a woman's children greatly increases their prospects (this is the reason your (2) matters).
5. Unlike his sperm, a man's attention is a rather limited resource.
So, women would prefer to have children by an alpha male. They would also prefer to find a beta male to help raise them (they would like even more to have the alpha male raise them but see (5)). Men don't what to raise children that aren't theirs.