Anthropological-biological grounds of family and marriage strategies illustrated by polyandry and gender

In the article, the author makes an attempt of philosophical understanding of gender issues by establishing a connection between human habitat and social gender, which determines human behavior. Archaic polyandrous societies are analyzed through the prism of ethology and biology in order to find identical reasons for the emergence of polyandry, its types and general patterns of development of gender models. Based on the study of these societies, the author comes to the conclusion: the influence of the abundance of food resources on the strategies of family and marriage relations is quite significant; the variety of gender models in polyandric societies is limited and has clear genetic and ecological preconditions. In addition, as a result of the study, the author makes the hypothesis about the further gender development: the probability of leveling the social genders in today's world is extremely low due to the absence of natural selection, which could assist to leveling the corresponding genetic predispositions.