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How Partners Prevent Addiction: Scientific American

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Prairie voles in monogamous relationships respond less to drugs...
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Are we biologically inclined to couple for life?: Scientific American

Are we biologically inclined to couple for life?: Scientific American | Science News | Scoop.it

"Till death do us part” is a compelling idea, but with the divorce rate exceeding 50 percent, many people would very likely agree that humans have a biological impulse to be nonmonogamous. One popular theory suggests that the brain is wired to seek out as many partners as possible, a behavior observed in nature. Chimpanzees, for instance, live in promiscuous social groups where males copulate with many females, and vice versa.

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