Concept
Sexual conflict
Overview
term in evolutionary biology
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The sexual struggle is of two kinds; in the one it is between individuals of the same sex, generally the males, in order to drive away or kill their rivals, the females remaining passive; whilst in the other, the struggle is likewise between the individuals of the same sex, in order to excite or charm those of the opposite sex, generally the females, which no longer remain passive, but select the more agreeable…
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Close in meaning to Sexual conflict; the term itself is not named.
According to psychoanalysis, it rather seems that it is the independence of the object, selection of the sex of the object, the same free disposal over male and female objects, as observed in childhood, in primitive states and in prehistoric times, which forms the origin from which the normal as well as the inversion types developed, following restrictions in this or that direction.
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Close in meaning to Sexual conflict; the term itself is not named.
Along with that remarkable process which, beginning in minute forms with what is called conjugation, developed into sexual generation, there came into play causes of frequent and marked fortuitous variations. The mixtures of constitutional proclivities made more or less unlike by unlikenesses of physical conditions, inevitably led to occasional concurrences of forces producing deviations of structure.
Herbert Spencer, The Factors of Organic Evolution
States what Sexual conflict is.
Related ideas
- Animal
- Princeton University Press
- Natural selection
- Reproduction
- Oxford University Press
- Evolution
- Mutualism (biology)
Place in the tradition
Part of Evolutionary ethics.