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Originally Posted by elphenor
nah this is pretty controversial
I guess it depends on how you look at it
beating your wife, the gather part of your hunter gather tribe, is not a beneficial trait...
is it a byproduct? maybe, but it seems to me actually to be a largely separate phenomenon that does follow from a historical influence
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It's entirely possible that from an evolutionary standpoint making men so aggressive that they assault women isn't an issue because women can have babies with or without a black eye but men do have to be violent.