Biophobia breeds unparsimonious exceptionalism

摘要

With respect to aggressiveness it is not enough to say that humans are "like other mammals." We resemble only those speciesrnwhere 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.