Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences

Benenson et al. provide a compelling case for treating greater investment into self-protection among females as an adaptive strategy. Here, we wish to expand their proposed adaptive explanation by placing it squarely in modern state-based and behavioural life-history theory, drawing on Veit's pathological complexity framework. This allows us to make sense of alternative lifestyle strategies, rather than pathologizing them.

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This paper discusses the adaptive strategy of increasing self-protection investment among females and proposes an expanded explanation by integrating modern theories, in order to understand different lifestyle strategies.