How celibate monks are ironically improving the reproductive success of their families
Reproduction is at the very heart of evolution. So why has celibacy persisted for so long?
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Reproduction is at the very heart of evolution. So why has celibacy persisted for so long?
How celibacy could have evolved in the first place? A new study conducted in Western China tackles this fundamental question by studying lifelong religious celibacy in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.
Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us.
Institutions can also be shaped by people’s reproductive and economic decisions, a study on celibacy in Gansu, China, shows
Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us.