DrBob

There is great work on prairie vs mountain voles. Mountain voles are pair bonded and meadow voles are not (I think that's right). All of them are rodent polyamorous nymphomaniacs with respect to the breeding, it's just that the mountain ones prefer co-nesting with the same vole regardless of who they're banging. There is a brain difference with respect to oxytocin sensitivity that seems to control the nesting behavior.

Be cautious with the "mate for life". All animals of both sexes will slut it up and bang anything receptive and some things that aren't. Ever have your leg jumped by a dog? There are some animals that are pair bonded for raising the young - that does not imply that they both contributed to the genetic content of the offspring.

Just bewilderment. Because snubbing Harris will get you Trump. Who's a great friend to Gaza /s. So cui bono?

I have always identified with Lawrence "Crash" Davis in Bull Durham.

Chickens have a dominance hierarchy too. And so do rats under some conditions. The dominance literature that I know of does not make it sound great. Dominant makes are like the loud drunk guy at a party who wants fight - people just generally avoid him. So they're socially isolated bullies. Robert and Caroline Blanchard from University of Hawaii is good for this work, and Robert Sapolsky for work on stress hormones.

Petersdorf and Higham are a great summary of the variety in the primate world. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0308

It's not true for gorillas or chimps either - and those groups don't share a social structure. I have a feeling that you are not well informed on this topic.

Is this supposed to be funny or something?

Sheets weekly. Towels twice a week, but I shower twice a day.

I was entranced by the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien. Sailing ships, adventure, and a little romance.

Let me introduce you gentleman to Doug Prasher.

https://www.science.org/content/article/man-who-wasnt-there

He was years ahead of the field in molecular biology but was parking cars when his work won a Nobel Prize...for other people.

Neither sex nor drugs were ever discussed...at least not by my parents.

It may helpful to think of this in terms of human rights; some rights apply to individuals so even though there may a group of them we'd refer to them as persons e.g. displaced persons. Some rights are held collectively and we would refer to them as a people e.g. Indigenous People of the Amazon.

eta: "Those people" and "you people" are both seen as racist dogwhistles. Your sister was probably laughing because you didn't intend or get the subtext of your phrasing.