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WiM042 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 4 | Instincts and Incentives

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Is It Social Monogamy or Parabonding?

We're wrapping around this biological predilection for long term pair bonding in a way we've just kind of ritualized it. The real experts on social monogamy and parbonding are the birds. Ye, itt has a lot to do with it. Really helps to have two birds am who can protect the nest and defend it and alternate the foraging. So one goes out bari food, while the other protects the babies. And then they swap often. It does come down to that maximiing reproduction. Whether it's, i guess for certain forms of primates that a long time perbondig is the dominant strategy for that. But other species of anything, actually

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