Behavioral Ecology Blog

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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Pinnipeds have traditionally been thought of as a model system for exploring models of mating system evolution. The typical system involves sexual dimorphism with males being much larger. These males control a territory, and the females that reside on this territory. This usually results in polygyny- the mating system defined as the [...]

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