Evolution - AO3

• How is Daly & Wilsons study supporting evidence ?

  > Found that 92% of same-sex killings involving love triangles were males killing males

  > Sexual jealousy results in aggression towards a rival being a survival trait (male needs to be the one passing on his genes)
• How is Buss & Shackleton's study supporting evidence?

  > When men feel threatened in a relationship they tend to give in to their female by debasement and giving other men intersexual threats

  > Men have evolved to protect his female, if another man interferes it causes aggression as they have a duty to pass on genes
• How can protection of genes be applied to psychology as a science?

  > Protect mate and offspring and their self which is a widely accepted idea

  > Has scientific credibility including being widely accepted in the scientific community
• How is aggression being seen as counter productive refuting evidence?

  > Being aggressive may attract aggression from others and may not survive

  > Aggression may not aid survival but decrease the chance of survival, might decrease someones status
• How is aggression towards a stranger an alternative explanation?

  > Doesn't link to protecting a mate, offspring or passing on genes

  > Frustration aggression hypothesis - aggression may be displaced onto someone else at a later time - Dollard
• Why is this theory reductionist?

  > Fails to acknowledge other factors like hormones, brain functioning and childhood experiences

  > Might be viewed as a form of genetic reductionism where complex behaviours are simplified to one specific factor