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#571 - Joyce Benenson - How Do Women Compete For Partners?

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Females Compete for Status More Than Males

A lot of your work has looked at the unique and quite vicious ways that females enact their intra-sexual competition. So what is unique about the female competition for status when you compare it with males? Okay, well, I guess I have a recent paper where I argue that females, more than males, engage in safe, subtle, and solitary forms of competition. And by safe, I've done a lot of work and many others have, suggesting that across animal species, females need to stay alive more.

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