It's an interesting approach. ... You can imagine this maybe happening in larger societies, but it's marriage that matters here, as [this] is what passes on inheritance. ... Monogamy is a marriage system, not a mating system. Kit Opie More Quotes by Kit Opie More Quotes From Kit Opie Males [in the group] are basically sitting around waiting to mate with the female, it would therefore pay for the man to kill the infant, so he can mate with the female. Kit Opie top-news The modern monogamous culture has only been around for just 1,000 years. Kit Opie top-news Humans shifted in the other direction. Kit Opie top-news We're moving away from 'Until death do us part' as women are no longer willing to put up with [polygamy]. Kit Opie top-news This happens when they don’t know each other, after a while they fall into a dominance hierarchy with an alpha male but if they don’t know each other then there is often aggression while they establish that. Kit Opie latest-headlines