[ExI] Did Evolution produce a gene for good soldiers?

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 4:41 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 4:01 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *Males might as well fight on to the death since that's what is going to
>> happen to them if they werecaptured.*
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> But those males had mothers, and they had genes not to fight to the
> death, and so there was a 50% chance the males inherited them from her, the
> males also had fathers, and they may have had those same "not to fight to
> the death" genes for the very same reason.
>

### Obviously, the expression of psychological traits is modified by gender
and by individual ontogeny, among others. A "Stockholm gene" will be more
activated in a female in response to the typical female regulatory stimuli,
such as high levels of estrogen, but not in a male, just like the genes for
breast growth. A set of psychological adaptations to individual relative
physical weakness (such as submissiveness, anxiety, high levels of arousal)
will be activated by the personal experience of being physically dominated
by others since childhood.

Genes "know" in what kind of a body they are in and they "act" accordingly.

Rafal
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