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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship
Modern Wisdom
Is Concealed Ovulation in Humans a Cause of Predation Risk?
Concealed ovulation in humans could be explained by the fact that it stops other women intersexually competing with them. Males don't quite know whether they have fertilized you or not so if you have a free-for-all kind of mating market as you have in many mammal species it encourages the males to stay around and that then gives the females more choice right presumably also protects the infants as well Not necessarily no I mean what what actually primarily the problem that most mammals face and eat most birds as well is actually predation risk.
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