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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship
Modern Wisdom
The Trade-Off Between Survival and Fertility
Females need to strike a balance between the amount of protection and or resources that perhaps a partner or a group could give them with how many other females does being a part of that group expose me to. If you have two few resources or protection you are at risk of predators but if you have so many resources and protection you are then suffering this endocrinology yes fuckery that goes up, she says. This does spill over in terms of human hunter gatherers though because it turns out that homicide rates just increases linearly with the size of the living group.
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