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Re:Why do men strive for status and money? by minhaz23 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:29PM (#12645346)
"Marriage is considered a human universal by anthropologists."

Can you provide any sources?

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Re:Why do men strive for status and money? by mikebenfield on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:57PM (#12646155)
Just about any introductory anthropology textbook.

I think the idea may have originated with anthropologist Donald Brown, who wrote a book Human Universals (which I haven't read) about traits that are pretty much ubiquitous across all cultures.

If you can tolerate a Wikipedia article, here it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal

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