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An Anthropologist Made a Mammal 'Monogamy Scale'. Here's Where Humans Rank.


Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, although reproductive monogamy is not universal across our many cultures and subcultures.

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