Are Humans Monogamous? (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
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February 10, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, I have a question for you. |
| 0:02.0 | Are we made for monogamy? |
| 0:04.2 | Oh, like you and me? |
| 0:05.9 | Humans. |
| 0:06.6 | Humans. |
| 0:06.8 | Humans. |
| 0:08.6 | Well, that's a hard question because made is a loaded word. |
| 0:13.8 | If I take it to mean, did we mostly evolve to be monogamous animals? |
| 0:19.7 | I would say probably not at the genetic level, but I think our |
| 0:28.0 | societies evolved in conjunction with our genetics to a point where monogamy seems to have |
| 0:33.4 | a lot of advantages for organizational purpose. |
| 0:36.2 | Well, so let's investigate it because we've talked about it before in the podcast, |
| 0:40.3 | but I recently came across some articles, actually famous patron and Lyndon sent some stuff in. |
| 0:48.3 | And I kind of wanted to just do a review of the evidence and just really try to figure out |
| 0:53.3 | what do we know about humans, what do we figure out. Sure. What do we know about humans? |
| 0:55.4 | What do we know about primates? |
| 0:57.5 | What do we know about our history and society and the data that we can find in our |
| 1:04.0 | behavior today? |
| 1:05.8 | And because it's a thing that I think a lot of people struggle with in terms of, you know, aren't we supposed to be monogamous? |
| 1:14.5 | And I just think there's a lot of questions to be asked. |
| 1:17.3 | And I think there's a lot of benefit to knowing the data because once we understand the data, then we understand the situation. |
| 1:25.8 | I think we can be kind of freed with that knowledge. |
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