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In the case I posited, an expansion of output imposes increasing costs upon the predator because his marginal costs will rise and the victim's will not.
Physicists may also be on the verge of discovering the fifth dimension . This dimension's theoretical existence was first posited in the 1920s by the German mathematicians Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, who hypothesized that "each point of normal space is actually a loop in [the] fifth dimension."
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."
In the other instances, there is at least a trade-off posited between individual rights and competing public purposes, like the protection of children.
So Gould, without conspicuously positing a simplistic dichotomy, has posited a simplistic dichotomy: Every behavior--infidelity, genocide, whatever--is either a mere "capacity" or an "inevitability."