Monogamy, strongly bonded groups, and the evolution of human social structure

Chapais, Bernard

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Monogamy, strongly bonded groups, and the evolution of human social structure

Chapais, Bernard·2013·Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

DOI 10.1002/evan.21345

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Human social evolution has most often been treated in a piecemeal fashion, with studies focusing on the evolution of specific components of human society such as pair-bonding, cooperative hunting, male provisioning, grandmothering, cooperative breeding, food sharing, male competition, male violence, sexual coercion, territoriality, and between-group conflicts. Evolutionary models about any one of those components are usually concerned with two categories of questions, one relating to the origins of the component and the other to its impact on the evolution of human cognition and social life. Remarkably few studies have been concerned with the evolution of the entity that integrates all components, the human social system itself. That social system has as its core feature human social structure, which I define here as the common denominator of all human societies in terms of group composition, mating system, residence patterns, and kinship structures. The paucity of information on the evolution of human social structure poses substantial problems because that information is useful, if not essential, to assess both the origins and impact of any particular aspect of human society.

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Callitrichine social monogamy can be viewed as similar to the flexible mating strategies found among humans.
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Authors: Chapais, B.
Corresponding author: Chapais, Bernard
Venue: Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-03
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 52-65
ISSN: 1060-1538 (ISSN-L)
1520-6505
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21345
OpenAlex: W1988472075
Cited by: 250
References: 78
Citations by year: 2026: 22 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 22.08
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 42 d)
Locations: Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
Keywords: monogamy, pair bonding, group composition, mating systems, residence patterns, kinship systems, evolution of human society, social evolution, human cognition
MeSH terms: Anthropology, Cooperative Behavior, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Male, Marriage, Sexual Behavior, Social Behavior

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