Boy catches baseball and gives it to girl - male instinct to give without reward?
11-04-2015, 09:43 PMQuote: (11-04-2015 08:12 PM)Oz. Wrote:
Maybe it's female instinct to take without payment?
In regards to it being instinctual for males to present females they are attracted to with gifts, I was just remembering that I recently I finished the book "The Moral Animal", it is a book about evolutionary psychology, in it the author talks about how male chimpanzees present gifts of food to females that they hope to have sex with, the female chimpanzees then weigh whether or not they want to have sex with that male.
Often the presentation of a gift such as food will increase a male chimp's chances for sex, sometimes not, sometimes they explicitly trade gifts, foods, favors, etc. for sex.
Doesn't sound too different from human interactions, assuming that we evolved from apes, a lot of this could have carried over through evolutionary psychology. So much of our instincts, behaviors, desires, etc. are imprinted into our DNA. The only difference is how far we've come from the days of tromping around the forest in a pack of apes.
