Putting Monogamy to the Test

The Chicago Literary Salon I’m willing to bet it’s a conversation we’ve all had over wine, dinner or, for those still in college, in dorm rooms: are humans meant to be monogamous? Someone trots out the example of the vast number of animals that are not monogamous, and someone else names the animals that are. (Maybe two? Swans? Penguins?) Certainly the divorce statistics in America appear to support the “humans as incapable of monogamy” theory. In the…