Do highly aggressive men produce more offspring? Here's why long-accepted research indicating so may have been mistaken.
A person's genetics may predispose them to aggression, but our behavior is a function of many situational factors.
Chagnon's research concluded that, like elephant seals, men who are highly aggressive produce more offspring. If so, then their belligerent tendencies would be propagated to their offspring, making men in that society highly warlike. As a previously uncontacted people, the Yanomami were a prized resource for evolutionary anthropologists who often portrayed them as representatives of the lives of our subsistence ancestors across hundreds of millennia.
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