[Resource Scarcity] ➔ [Need for Shared Parenting] ➔ [Evolution of Pair-Bonds]
For decades, scientists believed that animals who pair-bonded for life, like swans, gibbons, and prairie voles, were strictly sexually exclusive. Then came DNA fingerprinting in the 1990s, and the bombshell discovery: social monogamy does not equal genetic monogamy. zooseks animal exclusive