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To what degree has it been studied whether our affinity for debates and duels comes from a primate decision making social aesthetic. Something like an aesthetic of having an alpha male and a challenger male battling it out for group decision making supremacy (with a clique of women serving as a check against an alpha male running amuck and doing things which harm the health of the women and children of the group).

Could this be a type of genetic cognitive bias?

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The debate you linked to is not free for everyone, but a Pinker-Lakoff debate is analyzed by a cognitive scientist and presented in full here. Well, not right there, but both of those are linked to from there.

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