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I suspect it isn't the behavior itself that women find attractive, but getting away with it.  Whatever the social conventions are, the man who breaks them and suffers no penalties proves he is the alpha.

Well, provides evidence he is the alpha. In most cases, the man who breaks them and suffers no penalties is a stupid man who miscalculated the cost/benefit, but got lucky.

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"This agrees a lot with William Flesch’s Comeuppance, but like it focuses too much on group selection, instead of individual selection, pressures."

How do you know how much is too much?

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