Behavioral Ecology Blog

So I obviously have to cover this story- as it comes from a friend and labmate- Lauryn Benedict.  A Nature News piece just covered the results (published: Benedict, L. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. doi: 10.1007/s00265-007-0524-x (2007). ) of a part of her thesis.  Anyway, here is a part of the story!

Birds that sing in harmonious duets [...]

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The great human monogamy debate continues to be one of my favorite subjects to write about- which is good, as there is always new stuff coming out to support my hypothesis.
For those of you new to it: the issue is human monogamy. Now the church, your high school sex ed. [...]

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For the first time, sociologists have mapped the romantic and sexual relationships of an entire high school over 18 months, providing evidence that humans frequently have mating strategies that are not charcterized by exclusivity.

Slightly more than half of all students reported having sexual intercourse, a [...]

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