ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences1997
Female space use is the best predictor of monogamy in mammals.
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- Female dispersion and sex ratios interact in the evolution of mating behavior: a computational model.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- The Monogamy Paradox: What Do Love and Sex Have to Do With It?Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Navigating Monogamy: Nonapeptide Sensitivity in a Memory Neural Circuit May Shape Social Behavior and Mating Decisions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
- A preference to bond? Male prairie voles form pair bonds even in the presence of multiple receptive females.Animal behaviour · 2016Article
- The evolution of monogamy in response to partner scarcity.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- To pair or not to pair: Sources of social variability with white-faced saki monkeys (Pithecia pithecia) as a case study.American journal of primatology · 2016Review
- Paternal care and litter size coevolution in mammals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Social monogamy in wild owl monkeys (Aotus azarae) of Argentina: the potential influences of resource distribution and ranging patterns.American journal of primatology · 2016Article
- Grandmothering life histories and human pair bonding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- The Fitness Effects of Men's Family Investments : A Test of Three Pathways in a Single Population.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2015Article
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- Competition for food in a solitarily foraging folivorous primate (Lepilemur leucopus)?American journal of primatology · 2014Article
- Correlates of genetic monogamy in socially monogamous mammals: insights from Azara's owl monkeys.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
Monogamy is typically considered to have evolved either because biparental care is important for offspring survival, or because males are unable to monopolize more than one female due to females being too dispersed. Here, in the first phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of monogamy in mammals, we show that neither of these explanations is consistent with the distribution of monogamy across mammal species. Monogamy evolved significantly more often in the absence of paternal care than in its presence. Furthermore, monogamy does not normally occur in species where female ranges are large. Rather, the most common feature of mammalian monogamy is that it evolved where females were solitary and occupied small, exclusive ranges, enabling males to monopolize them.
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