>>54697757No, humans are definitely not strictly monogamous. Monogamous means having one life-long partner and only mating with that being and absolutely no one else, ever. A lot of birds are like that, they often don't even find new mates after their partner dies. They pick one partner and stick with it their entire lives, no matter what.
Almost no human only has one single partner in their life. Humans are obviously way more complex than birds just in terms of intelligence and social structure, so our mating strategies are way more flexible and also vary per individual. There's some biological evidence for that as well when you compare humans with other primates. Gorillas are monogamous while chimpanzees are polygamous. This actually reflects in their testicle size - since gorillas only have one mate, they don't need to produce a lot of sperm, so their testicles are pretty small. Chimpanzees however are polygamous, the males mate with several females at once so they have really big testicles to produce a lot of sperm to distribute. Human testicle size is, interestingly, right between the other two - bigger than gorilla's (despite their overall larger bodies) and smaller than chimpanzee's (despite their overall smaller bodies). That suggests that our mating strategies are somewhere in between the two.
If humans really were (psycho-)biologically defined as monogamous, we wouldn't have divorce rates of 30-40% (in the West, where divorces are socially accepted now).
In other words, as a result of both biological and cultural influences, humans have a *tendency* towards monogamous lifestyles, with some individuals even living a 100% monogamous life, but it's definitely more flexible than that in most other cases. The majority of people only have one partner at a time, but go through several relationships throughout their lives.
Ahem, anyway... Husbandos.
