Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences
Veit, W. & Browning, H.
(2022).
Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
45,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000498
(2022).
Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
45,
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000498
Benenson et al. provide a compelling case for treating greater investment into self-protection among females as an adaptive strategy. Here, we wish to expand their proposed adaptive explanation by placing it squarely in modern state-based and behavioural life-history theory, drawing on Veit's pathological complexity framework. This allows us to make sense of alternative “lifestyle” strategies, rather than pathologizing them.