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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship

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Women Using Males as Hired Guns

Women are using males as hired guns so you get this hired gun effect. The idea that they're actually using the males as a form of protection then would explain why you get their system. It also would explain something that's slightly peculiar about human make choice and that is it seems to be driven predominantly by the women. From 18 you see women starting to focus on phoning a boy of about their own  and increasingly it takes the guys about the better part of five to seven years to start doing the same.

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