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thenewgreen  ·  4336 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are Humans Monogamous?

My guess is that without the strident scarlet-letter that accompanies cheating, most adult males would go the route of the gibbon. If it were socially acceptable all us gibbon males would be spreading our gibbon seed all over creation.

So what exactly is monogamy giving us from an evolutionary advantage? Apparently not enough to actually be monogamous or we wouldn't have that word flexibility have to be put in there.