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From: evs@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ed Simpson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: reproductive stragegy and human behavior
Keywords: evolution human behavior family homicide
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Date: 14 Apr 89 17:07:20 GMT
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An interesting article that pertains to the evolution of human
reproductive strategy:

Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide.  M. Daly and M.
Wilson.  Science 242: 519-524.  28 Oct 1988.

They are researchers in the Psych. Dept. at McMaster Univ. in Hamilton,
Ontario.  Basically they show that behavioral predictions
made from armchair cost-benefit analysis in the context
of natural selection theory are born out by extreme
manifestations of these behaviors (e.g. within-family homicide).

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Ed Simpson    e-mail by ARPANET: evs@cs.duke.edu
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Ed Simpson    e-mail by ARPANET: evs@cs.duke.edu
P.O.Box 3140, Duke Univ. Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA 27710