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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Mother Nature, there is no free lunch. Males (not just the human kind) are expected to be powerful, confident, successful, desirable, change-makers with lots of children from young, fertile women, to ensure their DNA survives. And they have evolved to do just that. [/quote]

Actually when you look at patterns of mating before the modern era [b]the vast majority of men did not reproduce[/b].  Women have always been the choosers and chosen the best, most attractive and strong partners. [/quote]

You are right, but perhaps not in the way you think you are.

Before the "modern era," you had a small number of powerful men who did most of the reproducing while the majority of men were expendable, and one notch above the beasts of the fields. This is why men evolved to seek power, and in some cases rape. Women are never at top, but the limit on how many children a woman can bear has always made them less expendable, and so women always have more status than poor men, but less than powerful men. In life, men are either winners or losers. For women, there's a big gray area, so there is less of an incentive to be ruthlessly ambitious and competitive. Historically, men have been forced to play a crueler game than women in order to have children and successfully provide for them.[/quote]

As a wildlife biologist, former primatologist, with a dual BS in biology and anthropology, claims like this make me cringe.

Leave the science to the scientists, please. [/quote]

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