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Ruth Mace,, ,Alberto Micheletti, and ,The Conversation

Male celibacy has evolutionary benefits — but not for the reasons you think


Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us. Yet many religious institutions around the world require exactly this. The practice has led anthropologists to wonder how celibacy could have evolved in the first place.

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