Aggression vs. Apprehension

“Men have evolved to live dangerously because success in competition or battle used to lead to more or better sexual conquests and [hence] more surviving children. Women who live dangerously merely put at risk those children they already have [or those they are yet to have].”

Women are incentivized to avoid risk if they want their genes to be passed on to the next generation, whereas men are incentivized to seek risk.

It’s interesting that, in humans’ pre-agrarian ancestral environment, human gender roles had completely opposite incentives with regard to risk, and yet they still were able to cooperate in order to create successive generations.

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