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I am not sure it is evolutionarily useful to become self destructive upon rejection, I imagine rejection has always been fairly common. I think the researchers
by bh23ha 17y ago
I am not sure it is evolutionarily useful to become self destructive upon rejection, I imagine rejection has always been fairly common.
I think the researchers' interpretation is very biased. I can easily imagine that the aggressive reaction is in fact useful. Perhaps not in modern high tech. society, but even in modern day we are still an aggressive species and aggression in often sexy, men with a criminal background on average have more children. And today still, aggressive behaviour is a pretty good way to gain social status in high school.
- robak 17y agohigh school and prisons, huh?
- fnid 17y agoPerhaps it does have an evolutionary purpose. Say you are a male who is constantly rejected by the female. If mate with the female, perhaps even against her will, then you produce offspring. Also, being rejected is a dominance issue. If rejected from more powerful members of the society produces aggression to the point of killing those more powerful then the aggressive individual rises to power and increases the odds of reproduction.
- enqk 17y agoThis also came to me as strange. It came to me that someone who is being rejected may not have good prospects in the future for succesful procreation. So having such individuals' nature turn self-destructive / aggressive will ensure he/she get further rejected. Increasing the selection process: only the socially/behaviourally fit remains in the community.