monogamy
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The findings provide new insight into a long-standing scientific debate over whether monogamy is a critical step in the evolution of complex insect societies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026
"Once monogamy was locked in, there was no longer any evolutionary pressure to maintain genes involved in sperm motility."
From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026
"The finding that human rates of full siblings overlap with the range seen in socially monogamous mammals lends further weight to the view that monogamy is the dominant mating pattern for our species."
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
The result is an estimated monogamy rating that can be compared across species and cultures.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
Many scholars vehemently reject this theory, insisting that both monogamy and the forming of nuclear families are core human behaviours.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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