Micallef
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- Apr 29, 2009
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To get power even when we lived in cages if you could beat the other males you got the power and had all the woman.
So it's in our instincts and nature.
Apologies for going off-thread but this is incorrect and badly worded. This kind of stuff comes up too much on BHW, and the attitude it creates is damaging and frankly quite boring.
Humans and most primates don't live in a mating system where beating the other males into submission will get you all the women. Other animals do (for example Reindeer) but we are not like them. This is because blind violent competition for mates is not beneficial for group survival, and has been evolutionarily weeded out.
Look around you. It's not the pattern you see, and it certainly wasn't that way either when we lived in "cages" (I suspect you mean caves). Physical prowess played more of a part then, of course, but it wasn't the way you are suggesting. Primates live in societies - they work out heirarchies, sure, but pretty much every male should get to mate at some point.
With humans, we have contraception, and there is massive promiscuity and random mate choices, as the female's choice no longer involves risk of using up all her energy to pass on genes she is not sure about.
I am sorry for the rant but it had to be said.