MichaelVassar comments on Against the standard narrative of human sexual evolution - Less Wrong
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Haven't read the book yet, but here's the supporting evidence I gathered from the Amazon.com preview and the authors' website and blog. (I probably missed some so please add to the list.)
On a separate note, while it seems plausible that the authors of the book are right that our forager ancestors were polyamorous, it's not clear why that matters to us in making our own choices, given that our ancestors switched over to monogamy/polygyny as soon as agriculture was invented.
Thanks. Sounds like an interesting and plausible scholarly argument!