The Story of a French Girl Who Gets Kidnapped by an Amazonian Tribe

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There was a story that Rob Henderson told me from a book where a French girl, I want to say in the 1800s was kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe. She gets brought into this tribe and maybe they were going to kill her, but they end up not killing her. The local tribe's girl had created some sort of poison food thing that she had hoped the new girl was going to eat. And what she'd said is the contingency. If you don't want it, you can give it to somebody else. So she then left it on the side. This boy had gone over and eaten it. We love these stories. But I think men also get along in a way that

Joyce Benenson is a lecturer of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University whose research focuses on human social structures and sex differences in competition and cooperation.

We're often told that men are more competitive, more status-driven and more ruthless with rivals for potential mates. In reality doesn't seem to be true, the difference is that women's competition takes a more subtle, cynical and sophisticated route to drive away their competitors.

Expect to learn how women compete for status, why women exclude more than men, why women who promote an egalitarian world are less charitable than you might think, how you can interfere with a rivals' relationship without getting caught, the usefulness of gossip as an enforcement mechanism and much more...

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