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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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when you get into specific forms of violence obviously the cultural influence increases
But the propensity for violence in general is higher in men than in women. It seems like it would be a rather strange coincidence that the stronger sex that did most of the hunting and fighting is also more violent. I would say it's more of a stretch that this is not related to our evolution than to presume that it probably is.