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#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development

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The Relationship Between Monogamy and Polygyny

Monogamos couple are more egalitarian. Polygynous individuals are much better at maximizing the total pie. These are different way of cooperating, maximizing the surplus versus being egalitarian. It's very hard to maintain friendship if one is extraordinarily rich and the other one is very, very poor because we need reciprocity. The rich person may feel exploited, the poor person may feel jealous or may never have enough to reciprocate.

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