Comments on: Does Being Altruistic Or Being A “Bad-Boy” May Make You More Attractive? http://anthropology.net/2008/10/16/does-being-altruistic-or-being-a-bad-boy-may-make-you-more-attractive/ Beyond bones & stones Wed, 30 May 2012 15:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: For the love! It’s the Saturday Roundup #8 « Confessions of a Dirt Warrior v3.0 http://anthropology.net/2008/10/16/does-being-altruistic-or-being-a-bad-boy-may-make-you-more-attractive/#comment-12848 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:05:33 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=1643#comment-12848 [...] those “do-me” feminists mucking about. They’ll probably end up falling for the “bad-boy” anyway. [...]

]]> By: Luis http://anthropology.net/2008/10/16/does-being-altruistic-or-being-a-bad-boy-may-make-you-more-attractive/#comment-12779 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:22:39 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=1643#comment-12779 It’s very possible, I guess, that altruistic guys are prefered as husbands and formal parents but not necesarily as biological parents. If we exclude contraception (not always available, probably not often in prehistory – and, even if available, not always desirable from the women’s viewpoint) , more mating epysodes could well mean more biological offspring, taken care of possibly by the good guys (who would not care much even if they found out, precisely because they are altruistic).

Of course, the good guys would also get offspring (and possibly a majority of descendants overall), so some sort of balance between monogamous/altruistic and polyamorous/egoistic men would be the result, securing the perpetuation of both traits, at least in the part that genetics may have to do with it.

This may anyhow be oversymplistic, as archetypes are not real people.

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