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Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’

The first study to analyse rates of full vs half siblings in a range of mammals provides new evidence for monogamous ...
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How monogamous are humans vs. other mammals? Somewhere between beavers and meerkats, apparently

Humans are pretty monogamous, all things considered. That’s not a judgment call – it’s the conclusion of a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology, which ...
Newsweek

Q&A: Sexual Diversity Good for Animals and Humans Too, Says Author

Sexuality and gender are often at the forefront of cultural and political debate today. In his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern ...
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An anthropologist made a mammal 'monogamy scale'. Here's where humans rank.

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...
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Monogamy : mating strategies and partnerships in birds, humans, and other mammals / edited by Ulrich H. Reichard, Christophe Boesch

Monogamy : past and present / Ulrich H. Reichard -- Evolution of monogamy : mating relationships, parental care and sexual selection / Anders Pape Møller -- Mate guarding and the evolution of social ...