Sex at Dawn
by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
A provocative argument that humans evolved as promiscuous foragers and that monogamy is a cultural imposition causing misery. Entertaining and widely criticized by anthropologists; read it as a challenge, not a verdict.
Read it if…
you want the strongest popular case against monogamy's naturalness.
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Skip it if…
you want consensus science.
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Three things you will actually use
- Challenge assumptions about what is natural.
- Evidence is contested.
- Ethics do not follow from origins.
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Read a rebuttal (Sex at Dusk) alongside it.
Our verdict
Provocative and contested.
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