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normative monogamy: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary anthropology

the institution of culturally enforced monogamous marriage, proposed to have spread by cultural group selection because it reduces male competition and crime.

In evolutionary anthropology, normative monogamy refers to the institution of culturally enforced monogamous marriage, proposed to have spread by cultural group selection because it reduces male competition and crime. This meaning comes from Henrich (2012) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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  1. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (2012). The puzzle of monogamous marriage. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1589), 657-669. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0290

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