Geoffrey Miller on Twitter: "Hypothesis: similarly, a lot of status-seeking and socializing by long-term pair-bonded human couples is a reliable signal of couple-coordination ability, to intimidate rival couples/families and attract ally couples/families. Gibbon pairs 'duetting' has similar functions.… https://t.co/Nl7rzVo2Om"

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Hypothesis: similarly, a lot of status-seeking and socializing by long-term pair-bonded human couples is a reliable signal of couple-coordination ability, to intimidate rival couples/families and attract ally couples/families. Gibbon pairs 'duetting' has similar functions.https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/990263384602955776 …

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Heather E Heying @HeatherEHeying

Emergence in birdsong: Andean plain-tailed wrens sing tightly coupled duets. Males and females each know their own roles, but they also both “encode the combined cooperative behavior,” in order to sing the right notes, at the right time. #evotruth http://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6056/666 … pic.twitter.com/vTHUlI5Z8w

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1. Heather E Heying‏ @HeatherEHeying 28 Apr 2018
  
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  Nice. In gibbons, it's about access to the best fruit. In some human populations, it's about access to the best table at brunch. Nominally about seeing and being seen, but also about...access to the best fruit.
  
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1. Emergent Of System‏ @systemergent 28 Apr 2018
  
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  *looks around SF* This is plausible.
  
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1. ⛧ 𝕃𝕖𝕩𝕚 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕤 ⛧‏ @lexi_talionis 28 Apr 2018
  
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  Well, this adds a new dimension to the whole "power couple" thing.
  
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1. David Sossin‏ @DavidSossin 28 Apr 2018
  
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  You and me baby ain’t nothin but mammals...
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1. David J. Montgomery‏ @djmont 28 Apr 2018
  
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  My wife and I are as intimidating AF. The neighbors hate us!
  
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