Timeline for In what evolutionary scenario can a hominid species evolve to have males and females of equal size and strength?
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| Jun 25, 2022 at 1:07 | comment | added | John | @MikeSerfas actually they mostly "fight" with social standing. but you still have the problem that monomorphism does not correlate with monogamy. many animals that are on the extreme end of monogamy have high dimorphism because competition ofr mates can be even more fierce. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 22:07 | comment | added | Mike Serfas | @John - The relationship is typically expressed in terms of harem size, and implies conflict between males. Bonobos, being smarter than your average primate (including humans?), fight for reproductive success with testes rather than fists and teeth. | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 13:28 | comment | added | John | And yet Bonobo which are probably the least monogamous primate in existence, have less size sexual dimorphism than any other great ape. You may be thinking of testes size not body size.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173976 | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 5:28 | history | answered | Mike Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |