Why Be Monogamous? | Earth Science

Are we meant to get married, are we supposed to commit monogamy with the same person forever? Hannah Fry explains all!
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Footnotes:
1: http://www.avibirds.com/pdf/G/Grote%2...
2: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or...
3: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12...
4: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.j...
5: Dawkins, Richard (2006). The Selfish Gene 2nd Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6: Reichard, Ulrich H. and Ioesch, Christophe (2003). Monogamy: Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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