{"id":4772,"date":"2016-04-12T23:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2018-08-10T00:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T04:25:44","slug":"stis-promote-monogamy-but-only-in-certain-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/stis-promote-monogamy-but-only-in-certain-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"STIs promote monogamy, but only in certain instances<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) may have helped foster monogamy in some human societies, according to a new study. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers found that when a society is large the prevalence of STIs becomes endemic, reducing fertility rates and favouring the emergence of monogamists in society. However in smaller groups, with a maximum of 30 people, STI outbreaks are short-lived and do not become endemic in the population. This allows polygynous societies to flourish thanks to high fertility rates and the low impact of disease. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research team reached their conclusions by simulation the evolution of different social mating norms by modelling demographics and disease transmission rates.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/283\/1827\/20160216\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>April 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Chris Bauch, University of Waterloo, Department of Applied Mathematics, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) may have helped foster monogamy in some human societies, according to a new study. Researchers found that when a society is large the prevalence of STIs becomes endemic, reducing fertility rates and favouring the emergence of monogamists in society. However in smaller groups, with a maximum of 30 people, STI outbreaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[1851,1647,1290,2017],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-human-behaviour","tag-reproduction","tag-sexually-transmitted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1eY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}