The 'Mate Insurance' Theory Explained
"So, evolutionary psychology again. David Buss and other researchers, not just him, other researchers around the world have found and they have postulated the theory that it was avid picking up on a whole friend thing. It was advantageous not just for human females, in other words, women, but also primate females, baboons, chimpanzees, bonobos, et cetera, to assemble, if you can think of a baseball team, kind of assemble a dugout or a bench of male friends. And the reason why was because in the ancestral environment, in other words, the Flintstone era, right? Cavemen and all that. Life was mean, brutish, and short. You could have an accident. Talking about men. You could have an accident. hunting accident, you could take a bad fall, you could get sick, you could get killed, you know, by either a predator animal or by another human male, you know, and so on. That would leave the woman in question in the lurch. Now I'm here stuck with, you know, little Jimmy Jr. And, you know, I can't, so it makes sense to have friends so you could pick among them who's going to replace your main mate. Now, saying that understandably makes some brothers upset. Now they're looking at, well, my woman is being a little too friendly with so-and-so and so-and-so. Well, what I would say to that is, well, that's human nature, if you will."
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