Male Risk-Taking
Bill explains that males have evolved to take risks in order to get into the mating game. Risk-taking is an honest signal of male quality and is seen as attractive to the opposite sex. However, the downside is that the single biggest predictor of death in an industrialized society is being a young male because of all the crazy risks they tend to take.In this clip
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637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands
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Why do men engage in dangerous activities from an evolutionary psychology perspective in the episode 637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands and the clip Male Risk-Taking?
Why do young men take risks, as discussed in the episode 637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands and the clip Male Risk-Taking?
Why do young men take risks as discussed in the episode 637: Bill von Hippel | Where the Social Leap Lands and the clip Male Risk-Taking?