The Causes of the Difference in the Behavior Portrayed by Men and Women

From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, aggression is not a singular or a unitary phenomenon. Rather, it represents a collection of strategies that are manifested under highly specific contextual conditions. The mechanisms underlying aggression have emerged, in this view, as solutions, albeit sometimes repugnant ones, to distinct adaptive problems such as resource procurement, intrasexual competition, hierarchy negotiation, and mate retention.
From this perspective, we expect variability in aggression—between the sexes, among individuals, over the life span, and across cultures. It illustrates the point that variability does not imply that biology is irrelevant. An evolutionary psychological perspective is truly interactionist: It specifies a set of causal conditions in which particular features of the perpetrator, victim, social context, and adaptive problem are likely to evoke aggression as a strategic solution.
An evolutionary perspective suggests at least six classes of benefits that would have accrued to ancestors who used an aggressive strategy: co-opting the resources of others, defending oneself and one's kin against attack, inflicting costs on intrasexual rivals, negotiating status and power hierarchies, deterring rivals from future aggression, and deterring long-term mates from infidelity or defection.
For this week's discussion, post a brief (one or two paragraph) discussion of aggression and how men and women differ in the way they aggress.