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interaction between cultural and genetic evolution generated a process that can be described as autocatalytic, meaning that it produces the fuel that propels it. Once cultural information began to accumulate and produce cultural adaptations, the main selection pressure on genes revolved around improving our psychological abilities to acquire, store

One of the key features that has helped all the nonhuman ultra-socials to cross over appears to be the need to defend a shared nest. The biologists Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson summarize the recent finding that ultrasociality (also called “eusociality”)45 is found among a few species of shrimp, aphids, thrips, and beetles, as well as among wasp

Men often fall into the role of the proactive or reactive Cuckold. He will never enjoy the same benefits as his mate’s short-term partner(s) to the same degree, in the way of sexual desire or immediacy of it, while at the same time enduring the social pressures of having to provide for this Good Genes father’s progeny.

Il maschio animale possiede un meccanismo innato che frena la sua aggressività verso i piccoli della stessa specie.36 Ma, se non appartiene a una specie monogamica, non fa praticamente niente per i piccoli e non distingue tra suoi e non suoi. Il cucciolo, da questo punto di vista, è per il padre un non-soggetto. Con l’alba dell’esperienza psichica,

‘The first departure from type is indeed that the offspring should become female instead of male’, he wrote in his biological treatise On the Generation of Animals. (He did allow that this…

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Comme nous l’avons expliqué au travers de la pyramide de l’hypergamie, il en est ainsi depuis que le monde est monde. Les femmes, garantes de la sélection naturelle, choisissent les meilleurs hommes. En sélectionnant les gènes les plus forts, elles assurent la continuité de l’espèce. Et nous avons aussi expliqué comment les sociétés traditionnelles