Human monogamy in mammalian context

Abstract excerpt

Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in human evolution 1–5 and, across animals more generally, evolutionary transitions to highly cooperative societies have been far more likely to occur in monogamous species 6–8 , raising the possibility that this may also have been the case for humans. However, the extent to which we can consider monogamy to be the species-typical human mating system is s...

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0c520ac9-0166-5045-8b50-8db7df7bdea1

DOI

10.1101/2025.08.19.671116