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Some points in the article could be queried... (but I'm not trying to suggest this invalidates the whole thing) the notion that being a brave warrior helps a m
by gort 17y ago
Some points in the article could be queried... (but I'm not trying to suggest this invalidates the whole thing)
the notion that being a brave warrior helps a man get the girls and leave many offspring has been toppled. Until missionaries moved in in 1958, the Waorani tribe of the Ecuadoran Amazon had the highest rates of homicide known to science
Why then are they being treated as representative? One would expect adaptations to be suited to normal conditions, not extreme outliers.
If the male mind were adapted to prefer the most fertile women, then AARP-eligible men should marry 23-year-olds, which [...] they do not, instead preferring women well past their peak fertility.
It's unclear what "prefer" means; but the context suggests it means "who did they actually marry" rather than "who would their ideal woman be". Clearly, we can't all get what we want.
I really wish it was more common for articles like this to provide a list of the scientific papers they're relying on, so readers could conveniently investigate deeper (for some definition of "conveniently").