Study traces origins of monogamous coupling

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 16:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

From an evolutionary standpoint, the key players in the mating game were males with poor fighting skills and females faithful to them.The roots of the modern family — monogamous coupling — lie somewhere in our distant evolutionary past, but scientists disagree on how it first evolved.

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