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aggression: murder
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- 1A01: buss and duntley 2006-propose that humans possess adaptations that have evolved specifically through the process of natural selection to produce what we now refer to as 'murder'.
-according to the evolutionary perspective, murder could not have evolved as a strategy unless it was associated with greater reproductive success than competing strategies.
-usually, the cost of murder would outweigh the benefit of adopting it as a strategy - 2A01: murder as an adaptive strategy- buss and duntley claim that for our ancestors, murder was functional in solving adaptive problems such as:
- preventing harm from others
-reputation management
-protecting resources - 3valid?if this explanation id valid, we would expect people with low status and lack of resources to be aggressive (daly and wilson)
- 4A02: daly and wilson (1988)-predisposing factors for murder
-found that men commit the vast majority of murders, and are more likely to kill another man whom they perceive as sexual rivals or those who challenge their position in the dominance hierarchy - 5wilson and daly (1985).investigates crime rates in detroit
-showed that males who were poor or unmarried were more likely to commit murder than were wealthier or married males.
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73% unmarried
-wilson and daly suggest that a lack of resources increases male-male competition and the risk of murder. - 6IDA: culture-yanomamo tribe require male violence for social status, whereas in other cultures, such as the !kung san, aggression leads to irreparable damage to the reputation of the aggressor (buss and shackelford). may suggest environment is highly competitive
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