Humans are more likely to be monogamous than most animals
According to this indicator, we are approximately on the same level as beavers. And noticeably more monogamous than our closest relatives, chimpanzees. H. Armstrong Roberts / Retrofile / Getty Images Cambridge evolutionary anthropologist Mark Dyble recently published a statistical study of the genetics of several dozen animal species, including humans, and the results may be surprising. It turned out that people, on average, are much more “monogamous” than primates, our closest relatives.