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Important points:
- This competition leads to strategies that are riskier for men both behaviorally and physiologically, and these result in higher levels of mortality.
- If mating competition is responsible for excess male mortality, then the more mating competition there is, the higher excess male mortality will be.
- The first factor is polygyny, the social situation in which one man maintains sexual relationship with many women (the opposite is polyandry—one women and many men). Several species of primates show high levels of polygyny, where one dominant male mates with most of the females in the group, and other males are left out. Human cultures have varying degrees of polygyny, and Kruger found that the more prevalent the practice, the higher the rate of male mortality.
- The more egalitarian a society, and the more devoted to monogamy, the less extreme the risk taking.
- This competition leads to strategies that are riskier for men both behaviorally and physiologically, and these result in higher levels of mortality.
- If mating competition is responsible for excess male mortality, then the more mating competition there is, the higher excess male mortality will be.
- The first factor is polygyny, the social situation in which one man maintains sexual relationship with many women (the opposite is polyandry—one women and many men). Several species of primates show high levels of polygyny, where one dominant male mates with most of the females in the group, and other males are left out. Human cultures have varying degrees of polygyny, and Kruger found that the more prevalent the practice, the higher the rate of male mortality.
- The more egalitarian a society, and the more devoted to monogamy, the less extreme the risk taking.
Men are dying for sex: Mating competition explains excess male mortality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Men die at higher rates than women across the lifespan. A new study suggests that this excess mortality is the price of reproductive competition.
phys.org