Is friendship akin to kinship
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...This chapter considers the many ways that contributing to collective outcomes can enhance the fitness of the individual, but also how difficult cooperation can be to maintain....
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...Recently, Ackerman et al. (2007) demonstrated that especially women treat friends more like kin whereas men tend to treat friends more like unrelated strangers....
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...A second line of reasoning applies more clearly to cross-sex friendships and draws on the logic of differential parental investment which suggests that, compared to men, women are likely to be more cautious and risk-averse in their approach to mating (Trivers, 1972)....
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...In line with the immense literature on differential parental investment (Trivers, 1972), it also makes sense that these modules would operate somewhat differently for males and females....
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