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Full Moon Child Mothers

Anybody read or experienced anything along the lines of the oft-mentioned bizarre factoid that human females that live together (sometimes? often?) eventually synchronize their periods?
Consider the "statistically proven data" examined and "espoused" by the Evolutionary Psychologists (a branch of Sociobiology) who studied "tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cultures" that women tend to commit infidelities when they ovulate, but prefer their mates when they don't. These scientists argue that the genes cause/motivate/predispose these behaviors to "enlarge the gene pool."
Back in human prehistory (not really too long ago, especially considering the BlueBloods of Europe. In fact, both Pres. Bush and J. F. Kerry descend from royal lineage!), people probably lived in small tribes that preferred to marry cousins, so infidelities helped avoid frailties associated with recessive genes (big problem in purebred dog lineages).
Famous experiment with men's dirty T-shirts, where ovulating women preferred the odors of men "most genetically dissimilar."
What kind of a clock functions here? Endogenous? Exogenous? Do groups of women who live together compete for each other's boyfriends on full moons? Is that the source of the Full Moon Crazy idea? Wolfmen?
Seriously, how does such a synchronicity happen, especially in an urban environment in a cloudy city, like Seattle, or among people (like college students?) too busy to really take notice or expose themselves to the full moon?
Then there's the idea that ovulating female humans TEND TO reject their significant others and tend to accept males outside their relationship. Famous "dirty T-shirt" experiment, with ovulating females attracted to the shirts less genetically similar to themselves also lends credence to the idea of their instincts to expand the gene pool and avoid incest.

Monogamy and Unmarried Mothers: I noticed the following in a scientific paper.
"Furthermore, we found no evidence to support the claim that human males adopt alternative reproductive strategies of sperm competition and monogamy."
Say what??? Human males do not adopt the alternate reproductive strategy called monogamy?!??!!
Perhaps they know something we don't admit about the direction of Post-industrial societies- toward unmarried child mothers.