Kleiman's review of monogamy among mammals contained several
hypotheses concerning correlates of monogamy among humans. This paper utilizes
holocultural tests to investigate these hypotheses and finds most not to be supported
by the ethnographic record. The paper also contains a discussion of the theoretical
and methodological problems confronted in attempting to test explanations of
human behavior advanced by evolutionary biologists by means of holocultural
research.
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