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Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation.
The Behavioral and brain sciences 2022 Jul 25Sizes of these terms reflect their relevance to your search.
The target article interprets women's lower competitiveness than men's as evidence of adaptation to help women avoid physical conflicts and stay alive. This commentary advances the additional hypothesis that strategically suppressing competitiveness, thus signaling egalitarian intentions, could be an adaptation to catalyze cooperative behavior from males and females, turning natural competitors (other women) into allies and men into supportive partners.
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Alessandra Cassar. Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation. The Behavioral and brain sciences. 2022 Jul 25;45:e133
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