/siberia/ - Off-topic

Came across this article while looking for the average size of men vs women. It says that the human males are very close in size to females due to monogamy. This paragraph stood out:

>According to this hypothesis, an ancestral polygamous mating system was replaced by pair bonding when lower-ranked hominin males diverted energy from fighting one another towar finding food to bring to females as an incentive to mate. Females prefered reliable providers to aggressive competitors and bonded with the better foragers. Eventually females lost the skin swelling or other signs of sexual receptivity that would have attracted different males while their partners were off gathering food.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-monogamy-has-deep-roots/