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Exclusivity and Pair-Bonding Among Non-humans

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Pair bonding is a term used in biology to indicate a strong interindividual relationship within breeding pairs most often consisting of a male and a female. The term is closely related to social monogamy, a mating system based on long-lasting relationships between sexual partners. Social monogamy differs from sexual monogamy in that it does not imply sexual exclusivity.

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  1. Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Hasse Walum & Larry J. Young

  2. Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Hasse Walum & Larry J. Young

  3. Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Hasse Walum & Larry J. Young

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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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Walum, H., Young, L.J. (2016). Exclusivity and Pair-Bonding Among Non-humans. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3404-1

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