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Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.

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    1. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 26 May 2018
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      1/5 ☝️ Evolutionary anthropologist here. Few things are "universal" about marriage, and the social enforcement of monogamy ain't one of them 🤯 See e.g. the distribution of marriage systems across the ethnographic record 👇pic.twitter.com/gS8qmp6Unw

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    2. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 26 May 2018
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      2/5 The data relate to the 186 societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, a key resource in anthropology. It's a set of societies that are well documented ethnographically, effectively a "snapshot" of variation in social and cultural practices 🌎🌍🌏 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_cross-cultural_sample …

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    3. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 26 May 2018
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      3/5 Statements that something about marriage is "universal" are entirely contingent on the definition of "universal", "marriage", etc., so not particularly useful and very often misleading 🙄

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    4. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 26 May 2018
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      4/5 Fun game: ask 5 friends how they define "social monogamy", you'll come up with 5+ answers! E.g. monogamous marriage vs. mating vs. reproduction vs. pair-bonding; rule vs. norm vs. behaviour, etc. These things are often conflated 😒 --- it's complicated!

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    5. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 26 May 2018
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      5/5 Conclusion: avoid making bold statements about "human universals" relating to marriage, about why monogamy emerged, etc. Read some anthropology instead 🤓

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      Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly 26 May 2018
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      What are your top three generalizations about human mating patterns that are empirically warranted?

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        2. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 27 May 2018
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          Being hyper-cautious 🧐 I'd say: 1. there is substantial variation in mating behaviour within and across societies; 2. variation in marriage systems (defined as in the map) does not map neatly onto variation in mating behaviour; 3. the role of historical processes is non-trivial.

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        3. Laura Fortunato  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 #stayAtHome #washYrHands‏ @anthrolog 27 May 2018
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          Some related discussion is in Fortunato, L. (2015) Evolution of marriage systems. In Wright, J. D. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., Vol. 14, pp. 611-619. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.81059-4 …

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