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Sex, aggression, and life history strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Aurelio José Figueredo ,
Paul Robert Gladden  and
Barbara Hagenah Brumbach
Aurelio José Figueredo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0068. [email protected]/[email protected]
Paul Robert Gladden
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0068. [email protected]/[email protected]
Barbara Hagenah Brumbach
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Northern Arizona University, P. O. Box 15106, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5036. [email protected]
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Abstract

We agree that sexual selection is a more comprehensive explanation for sex differences in direct aggression than social role theory, which is an unparsimonious and vestigial remnant of human exceptionalism. Nevertheless, Archer misses several opportunities to put the theoretical predictions made by himself and by others into direct competition in a way that would further the interests of strong inference.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 3-4 , August 2009 , pp. 278
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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