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Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe
Applications of sexual selection theory to humans lead us to expect that because of mammalian sex differences in obligate parental investment there will be gender differences in fitness variances, and males will benefit more than females from multiple mates. Recent theoretical work in behavioral eco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25526955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-009-9060-x |
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author | Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique |
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description | Applications of sexual selection theory to humans lead us to expect that because of mammalian sex differences in obligate parental investment there will be gender differences in fitness variances, and males will benefit more than females from multiple mates. Recent theoretical work in behavioral ecology suggests reality is more complex. In this paper, focused on humans, predictions are derived from conventional parental investment theory regarding expected outcomes associated with serial monogamy and are tested with new data from a postreproductive cohort of men and women in a primarily horticultural population in western Tanzania (Pimbwe). Several predictions derived from the view that serial monogamy is a reproductive strategy from which males benefit are not supported. Furthermore, Pimbwe women are the primary beneficiaries of multiple marriages. The implications for applications of sexual selection theory to humans are discussed, in particular the fact that in some populations women lead sexual and reproductive lives that are very different from those derived from a simple Bateman-Trivers model. |
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spelling | pubmed-54865232017-07-17 Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique Hum Nat Article Applications of sexual selection theory to humans lead us to expect that because of mammalian sex differences in obligate parental investment there will be gender differences in fitness variances, and males will benefit more than females from multiple mates. Recent theoretical work in behavioral ecology suggests reality is more complex. In this paper, focused on humans, predictions are derived from conventional parental investment theory regarding expected outcomes associated with serial monogamy and are tested with new data from a postreproductive cohort of men and women in a primarily horticultural population in western Tanzania (Pimbwe). Several predictions derived from the view that serial monogamy is a reproductive strategy from which males benefit are not supported. Furthermore, Pimbwe women are the primary beneficiaries of multiple marriages. The implications for applications of sexual selection theory to humans are discussed, in particular the fact that in some populations women lead sexual and reproductive lives that are very different from those derived from a simple Bateman-Trivers model. Springer US 2009-04-24 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC5486523/ /pubmed/25526955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-009-9060-x Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title | Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title_full | Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title_fullStr | Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title_full_unstemmed | Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title_short | Serial Monogamy as Polygyny or Polyandry?: Marriage in the Tanzanian Pimbwe |
title_sort | serial monogamy as polygyny or polyandry?: marriage in the tanzanian pimbwe |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25526955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-009-9060-x |
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