Romance of the past: How our bodies reveal love lives of our ancestors

Cooperation between mothers and fathers in raising offspring has always been a point of conflict in nature. Parenting requires investment with each parent paying a cost of lost opportunity in mating with others and increasing their reproductive fitness[1]. In the case of human societies, we may have resolved this conflict by opting for monogamous mating structures where both parents will be equally involved in raising kids. But we see quite a lot of diversity in the human social structure, where many societies exist in polygyny (males mating with multiple females) and few exist in polyandry (females mating with multiple males)[2] as well. <a href="https://medium.com/@siddharth.bhatia17/romance-of-the-past-how-our-bodies-reveal-love-lives-of-our-ancestors-f8f0fc70eaf9">Click Here</a>