Humans are pretty monogamous, all things considered. That’s not a judgment call – it’s the conclusion of a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology, which places Homo sapiens a healthy seventh out of 35 species in terms of faithfulness to a single reproductive partner. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

We’re also, to put it bluntly, weird . “The vast majority of other mammals take a far more promiscuous approach to mating,” evolutionary anthropologist Mark Dyble, sole author of the new paper, pointed out in a statement this week.

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in groups where only on

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