#Reproductive #inequality in #humans and other #mammals

#OpenAccess

"Data from 90 human societies & 49 mammalian species. Humans exhibit lower average sex differences in reproductive inequality than do most other mammals, while falling within the mammalian range. These small sex differences in #ReproductiveSkew are due to institutions supporting #monogamy, to a limited intensity of #polygyny and especially to heavy dependence of children on #care from both parents"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220124120

So, on Twitter we had an #AnimBehav2023 conference... We wanted to focus on the “social control of reproduction” often mentioned when there is unequal distribution of reproduction (#ReproductiveSkew): some individuals reproduce a lot while others don’t (think about social insects for example)