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Men’s manners have improved markedly since Genghis Khan’s day.At heart, though, we’re the same animals we were 800 years ago, which is to say we are status seekers. We may talk of equality and fraternity. We may strive for classless societies.But we go right on building hierarchies, and jockeying for status within them.Can we abandon the tendency Probably not.As scientists are now discovering, status seeking is not just a habit or a cultural tradition. It’s a design feature of the male psyche--a biological drive that is rooted in the nervous system and regulated by hormones and brain chemicals.
How do we know this relentless one-upmanship is a biological endowmentAnthropologists find the same pattern virtually everywhere they 10ok and so do zoologists. Male competition is fierce among crickets, crayfish and elephants, and it’s ubiquitous among higher primates, for example, male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance.Coincidence
Evolutionists don’t think so. From their perspective, life is essentially a race to repro-duke, and natural selection is bound to favor different strategies in different organisms. In reproductive terms, they have vastly more to gain from it.A、female can’t flood the gene pool by commandeering extra mates; no matter how much sperm she attracts, she is unlikely to produce more than a dozen viable offspring.But as Genghis Khan’s exploits make clear, males can profit enormously by out mating their peers. It’s not hard to see how that dynamic, played out over millions of years, would leave modern men fretting over status. We’re built from the genes that the most determined competitors passed down.
Fortunately, we don’t aspire to families of 800.As monogamy and contraceptives may have leveled the reproductive playfield, power has become its own psychological rewarD、Those who achieve high status still enjoy more sex with more partners than the rest of us, and the reason is no mystery. Researchers have consistently found that women favor signs of "earning capacity" over good looks. For sheer sex appeal, a doughy (脸色苍白的) bald guy in a Rolex will outscore a stud (非常英俊的男子) in aBurger King uniform almost every time.
B．the availability of large number of females.
C．the mating patterns of females.
D．the natural desire to produce offspring.
网考网参考答案：D
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[解析] 细节题。文章第四段第二句就说明“从进化论的角度看，生命就是繁衍后代的竞争”。证明男性的主宰欲望从进化角度看是与繁衍后代的自然欲望紧密相连的。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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