MormonTimes.com: Communities succeed with monogamy
We have strong evidence — in our bodies, in our populations — that monogamy has been a significant part of the rise and triumph of the human species.
We have no evidence of any civilization that did not have it as the root social organization for the overwhelming majority of its citizens.
Humans didn't invent monogamy. Many nest-building bird species have practiced it (with some cheating) for, presumably, millions of years. But we're the only primates I know of that practice it.
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