ANT 3541 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anthropology, Memory, Psychology
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Aggression in animals - summarizing and taking notes on a recent study. Competition for food, for mates, and for space. Competition for food, grass is a great example as it is high nutrition. Competition for mates is a highly favorable competition strategy for reproduction purposes. Animals with a natural weapon as horns or sharp teeth has an advantage. Males and females have a difference of aggression. Males compete for mates while females compete for resources. Humans have one of the highest potentials for violent aggression. We are known to be a territorial species. Statistically speaking males have a more violent aggression where women use verbal and manipulation tendencies. The key problem of humanism is the proclivity of human aggression - genetically based. In anthropology it is a new idea that not every aspect of being human is beneficial. In the 1970s anthropologists were being told that humans were born good .
