Channel: This Place

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: Tournament vs pair-bonding The term I keep coming across to describe humans (and other species) is "serial pair bonders" or "serial monogamist". We tend to fall madly in love for a few years and then fall out of love. But considering all the diversity in human sexuality, and the fact that there are billions of us, it's hardly beneficial to put a label on it. You'll get polygamists, you'll get monogamists for life, you'll get males who are attracted to males, you'll get males who feel like they are female and who are attracted to females... and you know everything else. Looking at animal behaviour and the reasons for animal behaviour is just a way to start thinking about behaviour on a evolutionary scale. These are not necessarily models to explain human behaviour. Every species and every community will have a different world of when it's appropriate to be aggressive and when it's appropriate to be sexual. From secondary sources I've read that male and female humans are equally aggressive (how this is measured I do not know) but that males are more "physically aggressive". But that a big part of the difference stems from male vs male aggression. For example, from what I can see from internet article statistics (not really statistics), females and males are similar in counts of "physical domestic aggression". Link Dump Low level aggression in baboons youtube.com/watch?v=QZcTvFqzxA0 Photos are from Flikr users. All photos are under licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Sources: The Extended Phenotype- Richard Dawkins Lectures... check these out, they are awsome. If you like this stuff and don't like listening to me, watch these: youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA Patreon patreon.com/user?u=849925