Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 May 30;120(22):e2220124120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2220124120. Epub 2023 May 22.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023.
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This patterning of skew can be attributed in part to the prevalence of monogamy in humans compared to the predominance of polygyny in nonhuman mammals, to the limited degree of polygyny in the human societies that practice it, and to the importance of unequally held rival resourc …
This patterning of skew can be attributed in part to the prevalence of monogamy in humans compared to the predominance of polygyny in nonhum …