ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Physical Strength, Homicide, Scientific Method
23 Jun 2020
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Sports stars who win in violent competition. The us elected two governors from the movie the predator! The ability and willingness to disorder another human is a correlateof status for males in all known cultures. Premise: men fight over status because ancestrally this led to mates and resources. But fighting is dangerous, and there is another way: investing in children you already have. Young, because that"s when mate competition takes place in humans. Unmarried, because they don"t have the alternate path. Physically strong, because they are most likely to succeed. When men marry and have children, they should compete less and instead invest in their offspring. Basic prediction from evolutionary biology the tsimane men of bolivia: Aggression and homicide can result from different parts of the mind, each designed by natural selection for a different function. Humans are not designed to kill infants. Humans are designed to invest more when investment predicted reproductive success ancestrally.
