Podbit · Modern Wisdom
The verbal aggression gap between men and women is modest. The physical aggression gap is bigger. For homicide, it's enormous — men perpetrate over 90% of killings in every nation where data exists. The same pattern appears in chimpanzees, where males commit 92% of chimpicides. This is reproductive variance made lethal.
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Both sexes are prone to jealousy, but the triggers differ systematically. For men, sexual infidelity is typically more distressing than emotional infidelity because it introduces paternity uncertainty — the only species-wide reproductive threat unique to males. For women, emotional infidelity tends to be more distressing because it signals probable desertion: a partner who falls in love with someone else is likely to leave, which was historically catastrophic for a woman with dependent children. This asymmetry generates different mate-guarding behaviour: men are more focused on monitoring sexual access, women on monitoring emotional commitment. A 23andMe anecdote about a paternal affair discovered three decades later prompts a discussion of how jealousy evolved as a gut reaction that fires regardless of whether the evolutionary circumstances still apply — another illustration of proximate versus ultimate causation.
The sex difference in verbal aggression has an effect size of about 0.5, but for homicide the gap is enormous — men perpetrate 90%+ of killings in every nation where data exists.
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