Razib has responded to my disagreement with his statement that any given hunter-gatherer infant is far more likely to reach reproductive age than any given offspring of peasants. And he’s confident with his standing. I’ve done some reviewing of the literature and I still think that the probability that a child of an agriculturalist will [...]
October 16, 2008
Does Being Altruistic Or Being A “Bad-Boy” May Make You More Attractive?
Dienekes shared the abstract to a paper that seems to completely contradict an earlier study. It is pretty evident from the title of newer study, “Do humans prefer altruistic mates? Testing a link between sexual selection and altruism towards non-relatives,” what the authors tested. And they confirm that there is a linkage between the propensity [...]
