ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ovulation, Clitoris, Physical Attractiveness
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Derived from studies on chimpanzees: patrilineal troop structure, male kinship groups. Human social organization: male kin groups, exchange of women, long term pair bonding. Humans have prolonged parental investment which coincides with an increased paternal investment (fathers also gather resources for their offspring over a long period of time). Research ties it back to our relationship with chimpanzees. Suggestion that our earliest ancestors probably had a mating system similar to chimpanzees. Evidence rest on the similarities we still have with chimpanzees. A lot of the domains hierarchy is extended through these males. When males acquire mates in chimpanzee societies, they usually acquire females from other groups. (females usually pass or travel to their matrimonial relationships). Males usually hold the kinship network male authority is determined through male lineage, and females are exchanged for matrimony and mating. When these females are acquired, then long-term pair bond has formed. Often as well, there is some kind of sexual exclusivity between bonded pair.
