Carole Hooven, Ph.D.
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But what we're talking about is these broad patterns, mostly to do with sex and aggression that tend to differ between males.
And this is across sexually reproducing organisms for the most part.
So
All the other stuff can vary.
It's not that all X, Y people are going to have a higher sex drive and be more aggressive.
That's just not the case.
Bodies vary, behavior varies.
I'm sure there's a better answer, but here's what I think.
I hope people will write in with the better answers.
Making eggs is expensive calorically in terms of time and calories.
They're expensive.
So what we are designed to do is convert energy into offspring.
That's basically what evolution put us here to do.
And you want to do that as efficiently as possible.
So eggs are energetically expensive.
Sperm is less energetically expensive.
And I don't know what happens in terms of how the eggs that go atretic.
So we start out with, what is it, 10 million?
I know you just had...
Maybe a million to 100,000 to... Right.