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One of the most puzzling questions in anthropology is why marriage and incest taboos are nearly universal institutions in human societies. In order to answers these questions their many theories will be explained and compared.
There are many theories for the universal institution of marriage. It solves a few problems between men and women, but these problems cannot be considered the prime motivation for marriage as an institution. Some of these problems include sharing the products of gendered labor, caring for extremely dependent offspring, and minimizing sexual competition.
If sharing the products of labor was the cause of the development of marriage, why did humans not evolve a more efficient system of distribution? If minimizing sexual competition was the goal why didn't humans rotate sexual partners within the group so that no one individual gets more copulations than the rest? Humans can look to their mammalian and avian counterparts to see more persuasive explanations for the evolution of long term pair bonding, or marriage. Long term pair bonds are most closely correlated ...