littor...@gmail.com wrote:
> I googled "monogamy longevity", but found nothing of interest.
> Were Miocene aquarboreal hominoids monogamous?
If there's anything to r/K selection then absolutely. And absolutely
not.
The real answer appears to be that some human populations were
sexually selected, kind of a sexual free for all, while some were
quite monogamous.
...it's important to note that "Monogamy" in these terms doesn't
necessarily mean what modern society thinks of as monogamy. It
was probably closer to gorillas, where you have a single male with
a group of females.
So "Monogamy" is in terms of females, is what I'm saying, not males.
There's zero sexual selection for larger penises, for example, UNLESS
females are selecting partners. If she's not selecting then it doesn't
matter how large the male's willy is. She's not saying "No."
So called "Moderns" in Africa: The ones we think of as Hss were
probably a sexually selected group. That's how they recovered faster
than anyone else, filled in the vacuum left behind by events like Toba
for example. Then as they entered areas previously occupied by
Neanderthals/Denisovan (etc) they eventually met & interbred with
the surviving populations...
I'm guessing, being sexually selected, they were considered more
attractive TO NEANDERTHALS (etc) and preferred over their own
females.
Let's face it; a Neanderthal female was a shorter version of a
Neanderthal male! Not a whole heck of a lot of differences.
ALSO: The DNA data, at least what little we are allowed to see,
assuming any of the reporting is accurate, is consistent with this.
If Neanderthal males find so called "Moderns" more attractive,
prefer to mate with them, and so called "Moderns" would have to
be gay to want to do the sex with Neanderthal females, say
"Goodbye" to Neanderthal mtDNA lines! AND THEN there's some
science that claims Neanderthal males would have difficulty
producing male offspring with so called "Modern" females, but
not a lot of trouble producing female babies... NO MORE Y
CHROMOSOME!
REMEMBER: Interbreeding always happens but it's never
symmetrical. It was white slave masters with black women
slaves. It was white soldiers and colonists with native tribes
peoples... Russian soldiers atop German women...
It's never symmetrical. But it always happens.
Neanderthals were built like a Sherman tank. They could
easily rip the arms of a so called modern out of their sockets.
Neanderthal males could do even more damage!
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