Evolutionary Aggression

Evolutionary Aggression

1. infidelity

   • mate retention strategies
     • males
     • direct guarding
       • prohibiting partners from speeking to other men
     • snooping through belongings
   • cuckoldry
     • invest resources in a child that is not their own
     • men carry out partner rape to decrease paternity uncirtanty
   • Buss Shackelford
     • men give her what she wants
       • threaten to beat up other man
     • women verbal possetion signals
       • threats of leaving
     • men who married younger women used more mate retention tactics
   • + battered women
     • women who were sexually coerced reported being unfaithful
   • + risk of infidelity proceded sexual coercion
   • practical applications
     • intervention before violence

2. group display

   • sport
     • dominance
       • attractive to females
     • teratory and intimidation
     • motivation
       • singing
         • shows strengh
     • - can't beexplained by this differs to wildly
   • warefare
     • dominance
       • target minoroties
         • minamise threats
           • accsess to women
             • i.e. resources
         • secure power base
     • accsess to resources
     • chances of survival
   • deindividuation
   • post hoc
     • based on past events
       • not relevent

3. natural selection

4. sexual selection

5. limited practical application

6. gender bias

7. determanistic