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Feb 16·edited Feb 16

Miss information...There Is Evidence For Pair Bonding In Humans...Pair Bonding Is Not Life Long Exclusive Mating...You have to define monogamy in scientific terms...There Are Three types of monogamy...Social Monogamy - Sexual Monogamy And Genetic Monogamy...When People Ask about Monogamy,They're talking About Is Life Long Exclusive Mating Is Natural To Humans...Life Long Exclusive Relationship Is Called Genetic Monogamy Which Is Very Rare Even In Species That Are Classified As Monogamous...Humans Are Mildly Polygynous With Some Pair Bonding Tendencies...

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'Monogamous culture has only been around for the past 1,000 years'? So only a handful of years before the Norman Conquest of Britain, polygamy was the norm for medieval people? 🤔

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It's hard to know exactly but this is what research papers we referenced indicated.

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That's interesting. Could you point me in the direction of the reference? Also, there's a big leap between '75 million years' and '1000 years'.

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Yep! They're all linked out of this article here that we cited above: https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/17/health/sti-infanticide-human-monogamy/index.html

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I think a bit of peer review might not go amiss.

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