The evolutionary psychology of women's aggression
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The evolutionary psychology of women's aggression.
Evolutionary researchers have identified age, operational sex ratio and high variance in male resources as factors that intensify female competition. These are discussed in relation to escalated intrasexual competition for men and their resources between young women in deprived neighbourhoods. For these women, fighting is not seen as antithetical to cultural conceptions of femininity, and femal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0078