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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Extraordinary reproduction

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As Wrangham and Peterson write, “Males have evolved to possess strong appetites for power because with extraordinary power males can achieve extraordinary reproduction.”

--- Does it mean that males wanted power because the more powerful they were they could multiply more?
  

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Yes. Literally, it means, "making a more than ordinary amount of children" Us men just want more kids.

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  • Yes.
  • Literally, it means, "making a more than ordinary amount of children" Us men just want more kids.
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Yes.

Literally, it means, "making a more than ordinary amount of children"

Us men just want more kids.
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Thanks for the answer!
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By the way, how do you understand: Males have evolved to possess strong appetites for power ...

Does it say that men (over time) developed a characteristic and this characteristic was their desire to have appetite for power?

Thanks
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desire is appetite, so you are saying the same thing twice: desire to have appetite ~ desire to have desire ~ appetite to have appetite

But you've got the main idea.

It says that men (over evolutionary time) developed in such a way that they (on the average) (eventually) came to have a strong desire for power ...

CJ
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