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#556 - Rob Henderson - How Men Compete For Status

Modern Wisdom

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

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.

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