The evolution of pair‐living, sexual monogamy, and cooperative infant care: Insights from research on wild owl monkeys, titis, sakis, and tamarins

摘要: "Monogamy" and pair bonding have long been of interest to anthropologists primatologists. Their study contributes our knowledge human evolutionary biology social evolution without the cultural trappings associated with studying societies directly. Here, we first provide an overview theoretical considerations, followed by evaluation recent comparative studies "social monogamy"; are left serious doubts about conclusions these that stem from often poor quality data used overreliance on secondary sources vetting therein. We then describe field research program four "monogamous" platyrrhines (owl monkeys, titis, sakis, tamarins), evaluate how well support various hypotheses proposed explain "monogamy," compare those reported same genera in studies. Overall, found a distressing lack agreement between literature for taxa work with. In final section, propose areas deserve more attention. stress need high-quality natural history data, urge researchers be cautious uncritical use variables uncertain internal validity. it is imperative biological establish follow clear criteria comparing combining results published researchers, reviewers, editors alike comply standards improve transparency, reproducibility, interpretability causal inferences made