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#743 Vibeke Ottesen: The Evolution of Violence, and the Consequences of Banning Abortion

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Evolutionary Psychology

The way we evolved violent adaptive strategies let's see well I don't know if you've read Robert Trevor's seminal work on sexual selection yes it was an elaboration on answering questions that were more skirted by John's Darwin. So a man can meet a woman fall madly in love with her and be bothered by the fact that she has children from a previous relationship but not really want to invest in them. He might even turn to psychological violence such as name calling and ridiculing when he does spend time with them. This can escalate into him not wanting to spend money on food that that child needs. It gets even worse because suddenly he's actually being physically violent towards this child due to

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