Varieties
According to evolutionary psychologists David Barash and Judith Lipton, from their 2001 book The Myth of Monogamy, there are several varieties of pair bonds:
- Short-term pair-bond: a transient mating or associations
- Long-term pair-bond: bonded for a significant portion of the life cycle of that pair
- Lifelong pair-bond: mated for life
- Social pair-bond: attachments for territorial or social reasons, as in cuckold situations
- Clandestine pair-bond: quick extra-pair copulations
- Dynamic pair-bond: e.g. gibbon mating systems being analogous to "swingers"
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