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Abstract Benenson et al. provide a compelling case for treating greater investment into self-protection among females as an adaptive strategy. Here, we wish to expand their proposed adaptive explanation by… Click to show full abstract
Abstract Benenson et al. provide a compelling case for treating greater investment into self-protection among females as an adaptive strategy. Here, we wish to expand their proposed adaptive explanation by placing it squarely in modern state-based and behavioural life-history theory, drawing on Veit's pathological complexity framework. This allows us to make sense of alternative “lifestyle” strategies, rather than pathologizing them.
Keywords:
complexity;
complexity evolution;
evolution sex;
pathological complexity;
sex differences
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2022
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