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It is pretty unique to one sex, as twice as many women have ever reproduced than men (https://www.livescience.com/47976-more-mothers-in-human-hist...). There have even been times when 17 times more women have reproduced than men (https://genome.cshlp.org/content/25/4/459.long).
👤zone411🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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One piece of evidence is that men have a flatter distribution of outcomes and more often than women are falling off either end of the chart, for better and worse.
All it takes is a look at those OkCupid studies for rating distributions to see how much larger the difference is between success and failure for men.
This problem is not exclusive to men, but affects more men.
Women more often have an expectation of mating upwards, and high status women have a similar problem of finding themselves excluded.
👤david-cako🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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The requirements are different, a woman can reproduce as long as she gets food and shelter since finding willing men is easy, a man have way higher requirements on social status before he has a reasonable chance to reproduce.
So you'd expect anyone to get violent when they are starving or homeless, but only men to get violent if they don't see themselves getting a sex-partner in their future.
👤username90🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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The theory is that females find it much easier to initiate reproduction (although the process is far more work for them once started).
Also through large parts of human history females were treated as chattel and weren't subjected to the same pressures as males.
👤hdfbdtbcdg🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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One male can make dozens of women pregnant. If you go back in time far enough, you'll see that most women had offspring in their lives, while the same certainly isn't true of most men.
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I think that generally speaking, women tend to be more social, and, biologically speaking, have a higher desirability (it is low-effort for men to produce offspring, but high-effort for women).
👤meuk🕑6y🔼0🗨️0
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