What is the evidence that disproves Ryan and Jetha’s claim that pair bonding is neither adaptive nor a very old trait in humans?
What will be an ideal response?
Ryan and Jetha claim that pair bonding is a relatively late mode of mating, a consequence of agricultural societies. According to them, sex was previously a communally shared resource. However, there are several findings that disprove their claims. Biologically, this completely rigid maintenance of intragroup sex would lead to the creation of new hominid subspecies and species, and there is no evidence for that. Also, if sex were a communally shared resource, there would be strong evidence for sperm competition in humans, which is also not the case. Pair bonds are also seen in all hunter-gatherer
societies, and beside their main purpose—raising healthy offspring—they were also used to create cooperation between tribes.
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