RichardKennaway 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.
Any library or bookshop.