Professor of Anthropology, UCL
Evolutionary anthropologist, who has worked in Africa, the UK and China, on kinship, grandmothers, parental investment and the demographic transition, cultural evolution and phylogenetics, and the evolution of cooperation in human groups.
Celibacy: its surprising evolutionary advantages – new research
Jun 23, 2022 16:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us. Yet many religious institutions...
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