Psychopaths - It's Adaptable to Have a Couple of Psychopath in Your Group

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Life is too difficult, ancestrally, for people to get through on their own. That means that inevitably you need cooperation. But if you had too much of it, then the whole community would start to fall apart and people would be hostile and suspicious to one another. The males ancestrally that would have been a little bit more aggressive would have been seen as more useful. You know, they would have been formidable foes and useful allies for people to have.

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

Men fight. Sometimes they look silly when they fight. But they also collaborate and team up to take on common enemies. Women fight in very different ways that are less obvious, but no less vicious, and they sometimes try to even scupper their own teammates.

Expect to learn how men's judgements of formidability are better at predicting future sexual partners than women's judgements of attractiveness, why male intrasexual competition is so much more obvious, my theory around why men hate to hear that women like dad bods, why there are rules in a "no rules" street fight, what happens if you get kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe and much more...

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