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50Evolution and the loss of hierarchies: Dubreuil’s “Human evolution and the origin of hierarchies: the state of nature”Biology and Philosophy 27 (1): 125-135. 2012.
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30Humans and Harems? Review of Out of Eden: The surprising consequences of polygamy by David BarashBiology and Philosophy 32 (4): 615-625. 2017.In “Out of Eden” David Barash argues that humans are naturally polygamous, in that they have innate polygamous preferences. In particular, Barash argues that human males have preferences and other psychological states designed to support aggressive polygynous sexual competition, and that the resulting behavior has driven the selection of various other psychological and behavioral traits in humans. This is controversial, since the prevailing view of the human mating system in our recent evolution…Read more
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