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Gould puts the posited difference this way: Women, in theory, "should act in such a way as to encourage male investment after impregnation (protection, feeding, economic wealth, and subsequent child care), whereas men would rather wander right off in search of other mates in a never-ending quest for maximal genetic spread."
One is that potential mates can be sure you're a human and, hence, biologically worth mating with.
In humans, for example, various studies find outcomes of Prisoner's Dilemma to be dependent on subject-to-subject variation [ 2 15 ] , including in personality traits [ 16 ] . Among animals, we expect similar variation to be dependent on expected reproductive consequences of certain outcomes, which are of more or less value to individuals depending on their size, age, sex, health, condition, social status, coalition membership, expected life span, available mates, food availability and so on.
Williams, who had played on landmark sessions with reedmen Eric Dolphy and Jacky McLean, accented the backbeat in the drums and played just a little above everyone else, creating a polyrhythmic, vaguely African template for his band mates.
3. Remorse mates: Each made a public apology--Nakamura for calling the United States a bully, and Steinbrenner for the way he fired Yogi Berra.