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#687 Kristopher Smith: Human Cooperation, Partner Choice, and Long-Distance Relationships

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Are You a Good Hunter or Are You Good Gather?

The focus for researchers on partner choice models in general tends to be non-kin because kin selection usually explains it. People slightly prefer to live more with their kin and some previous studies have shown that but the larger factor was are you a good hunter or are you good gatherYeah yeah I've also asked you that because even if people are kin it doesn't seem that it's always the case that their interests are aligned right? And so it could possibly be that not all people that are part of our kin we would consider them to be potential partners at least for certain activities, he says.

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