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@article{item_3557267,
title = {{Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals}},
author = {Ross, Cody and Hooper, Paul L. and Smith, Jennifer E. and Jaeggi, Adrian V. and Smith, Eric Alden and Gavrilets, Sergey and Zohora, Fatema tuz and Ziker, John and Xygalatas, Dimitris and Wroblewski, Emily E. and Wood, Brian M. and Winterhalder, Bruce and Willf{\"u}hr, Kai P. and Willard, Aiyana K. and Walker, Kara and von Rueden, Christopher and Voland, Eckart and Valeggia, Claudia and Vaitla, Bapu and Urlacher, Samuel and Towner, Mary and Sum, Chun-Yi and Sugiyama, Lawrence S. and Strier, Karen B. and Starkweather, Kathrine and Major-Smith, Daniel and Shenk, Mary and Sear, Rebecca and Seabright, Edmond and Schacht, Ryan and Scelza, Brooke and Scaggs, Shane and Salerno, Jonathan and Revilla-Minaya,, Caissa and Redhead, Daniel and Pusey, Anne and Purzycki, Benjamin Grant and Power, Eleanor A. and Pisor, Anne C. and Pettay, Jenni and Perry, Susan and Page, Abigail E. and Pacheco-Cobos, Luis and Oths, Kathryn and Oh, Seung-Yun and Nolin, David and Nettle, Daniel and Moya, Cristina and Migliano, Andrea Bamberg and Mertens, Karl J. and McNamara, Rita A. and McElreath, Richard and Mattison, Siobhan and Massengill, Eric and Marlowe, Frank and Madimenos, Felicia and Macfarlan, Shane and Lummaa, Virpi and Lizarralde, Roberto and Liu, Ruizhe and Liebert, Melissa A. and Lew-Levy, Sheina and Leslie, Paul and Lanning, Joseph and Kramer, Karen and Koster, Jeremy and Kaplan, Hillard S. and Jamsranjav, Bayarsaikhan and Hurtado, A. Magdalena and Hill, Kim and Hewlett, Barry and Helle, Samuli and Headland, Thomas and Headland, Janet and Gurven, Michael and Grimalda, Gianluca and Greaves, Russell and Golden, Christopher D. and Godoy, Irene and Gibson, Mhairi and Mouden, Claire El and Dyble, Mark and Draper, Patricia and Downey, Sean and DeMarco, Angelina L. and Davis, Helen Elizabeth and Crabtree, Stefani and Cortez, Carmen and Colleran, Heidi and Cohen, Emma and Clark, Gregory and Clark, Julia and Caudell, Mark A. and Carminito, Chelsea E. and Bunce, John Andrew and Boyette, Adam H. and Bowles, Samuel and Blumenfield, Tami and Beheim, Bret Alexander and Beckerman, Stephen and Atkinson, Quentin and Apicella, Coren and Alam, Nurul and Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique},
language = {eng},
issn = {0027-8424},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2220124120},
publisher = {National Academy of Sciences},
address = {Washington, D.C.},
year = {2023},
date = {2023},
abstract = {{To address claims of human exceptionalism, we determine where humans fit within the greater mammalian distribution of reproductive inequality. We show that humans exhibit lower reproductive skew (i.e., inequality in the number of surviving offspring) among males and smaller sex differences in reproductive skew than most other mammals, while nevertheless falling within the mammalian range. Additionally, female reproductive skew is higher in polygynous human populations than in polygynous nonhumans mammals on average. This patterning of skew can be attributed in part to the prevalence of monogamy in humans compared to the predominance of polygyny in nonhuman mammals, to the limited degree of polygyny in the human societies that practice it, and to the importance of unequally held rival resources to women{\textquoteright}s fitness. The muted reproductive inequality observed in humans appears to be linked to several unusual characteristics of our species{\textemdash}including high levels of cooperation among males, high dependence on unequally held rival resources, complementarities between maternal and paternal investment, as well as social and legal institutions that enforce monogamous norms.}},
journal = {{Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}},
volume = {120},
number = {22},
eid = {2220124120},
}