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SUMMARY:Human monogamy in mammalian context - Mark Dyble\, University of C
 ambridge
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DESCRIPTION:Monogamy has been argued to have played an important role in h
 uman evolution and\, across animals more generally\, evolutionary transiti
 ons to highly cooperative societies have been far more likely to occur in 
 monogamous species\, raising the possibility that this may have also been 
 the case for humans. However\, the extent to which we can consider monogam
 y to be the typical human mating system is subject to debate. Here\, I pro
 vide comparative context on human mating behaviour by comparing the distri
 bution of sibling types (full siblings versus half-siblings) across more t
 han 100 human societies with equivalent data from 34 non-human mammal spec
 ies. While cross-culturally variable\, rates of full siblings in humans cl
 uster closely with rates seen among socially monogamous mammals and fall c
 onsistently above the range seen in non-monogamous mammals. Although the h
 uman data is demonstrative of considerable cross-cultural diversity in mar
 riage and mating practices\, the overall high frequency of full siblings i
 s consistent with the characterization of monogamy as the modal mating sys
 tem for humans.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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