Can Evolution Explain Everything? feat. Douglas Kenrick
unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc
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The Pain of a Loss Was Less Than the Happiness of a Gain From Men
The pain of a loss was much greater than the happiness of a gain, if you're especially when you're frightened. In peacocks and in those horns, it's usually the males that have those features because of the idea of differential pearl investment. For most mammals, for 97 % of mammals, it is, the male contributes nothing except sperm. And so now we think about that when men and women, or male mammals and female mammals in general, are about to make a mating decision,. She carries the egg inside of her body. So this is very expensive for a female mammal. It could be as cheap as going to the tockl stand for lunch, ok?"
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