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Evolution, mating effort, and crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

David C. Rowe*
Affiliation:
School of Family and Consumer Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. dcr091@ccit.arizona.edu

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Unlike some psychiatric illnesses, criminal lifestyles are not reproductive dead ends and may represent frequency-dependent adaptations. Sociopaths may gain reproductively from their greater “mating effort” relative to nonsociopaths. This mating-effort construct should be assessed directly in future studies of sociopathy. Collaboration between biologically oriented and environmentally oriented researchers is needed to investigate the biosocial basis of sociopathy.

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