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#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love

Modern Wisdom

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Is Status a Proximity to Infertility?

The gelada baguna seems to be one of the few which operates both systems simultaneously. In gorillas, you have all the females locked onto a male. They don't really relate to each other at all. But most of the time, it's female-female bonds. And they treat the male exactly like he was a female in this social sense,. And he treats her. We're still trying to figure out how you can improve it. What's happened is as group sizes have increased, it's become increasingly necessary for females to lock onto males as hired guns because females are no good as hired guns.

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