![]() This selection pressure is realized psychologically through a lower threshold for fear among women. From an evolutionary perspective, I argue that the intensity of female aggression is constrained by the greater centrality of mothers, rather than fathers, to offspring survival. Nonetheless, even where competitive pressures are high, young women's aggression is less injurious and frequent than young men's. For these women, fighting is not seen as antithetical to cultural conceptions of femininity, and female weakness is disparaged. ![]() These are discussed in relation to escalated intrasexual competition for men and their resources between young women in deprived neighbourhoods. ![]() Evolutionary researchers have identified age, operational sex ratio and high variance in male resources as factors that intensify female competition. ![]()
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