Biophobia breeds unparsimonious exceptionalism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4):279-280 (2009)
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With respect to aggressiveness it is not enough to say that humans are We resemble only those species where males have higher maximum reproductive rates than females. In such species males evolve a set of hormonally mediated competitive traits via sexual selection. Because humans match the predictions of this general evolutionary model, attempts to (re)explain men's aggressiveness in sociological terms are superfluous and misleading

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The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.Charles Darwin - 1871 - New York: Plume. Edited by Carl Zimmer.

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