Re: Origins of Human Violence
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- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
"ta" <padlrnc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
How did violence and aggression evolve in human beings, and what
evidence would you supply to support your position?
Did the earliest humans employ violence against one another, or was
the behaviour learned out of necessity?
It was likely born out of the pressures of sexual selection. Women
tend to be more attractive to aggressive men. The aggression should be
directed toward other "tribes," but they should be compassionate to
there wife and children. Women also tend to become pregnant more often
from any given act of rape vs any give act of consensual sex, thus
there are "genes" for rape in humans. Occasionally, men may have to
defended themselves from wild animals, but this was probably less
common than man-to-man combat. Again along the lines of sexual
selection men would hunt very large animals mostly to impress women
(small game gives more steady energy supply, but isn't as impressive).
These ideas come mostly from the books
- The Mating Mind - Miller
- Sperm Wars - (I can't recall now, but its a MUST READ!)
- The Evolution of Desire - David Buss
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