Authors: Walter Veit, Heather Browning
Published: 2022-07-25
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x22000498
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AbstractBenenson 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'spathological complexityframework. This allows us to make sense of alternative “lifestyle” strategies, rather than pathologizing them.