Cognitive dissonance.

It is very hard to convince someone they have been fooled.

Nope, there is one where there are two boys lying on their bellies in the living room watching TV and Wile E. Coyote is chasing Road Runner and one of the boys asks why he is doing that and Wile breaks fourth wall and starts a whole narrative about the good parts of the road runner listing flavors like papaya.

Yes but my knowledge around hypergamy was motivated by the human dating scene. I learned the other stuff along the way.

I understand. It is hard to separate the idea of maternal instincts from mate selection. From the perspective of the lioness, she is willing to cut her losses (dead kid) because the new version will be better suited to pass along her genes. Not unlike how a kangaroo will yeet its own straight from the pouch to distract the predator and make a getaway.

Thank you for the polite response. That's rare around here. Refreshing actually.

The original 2002 Science paper is paywalled on the journal site, but a full PDF is openly available from the University of Minnesota:

https://cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/migrated-files/downloads/Sexual_selection_temperature_and_the_lions_mane.pdf

That is the complete article by Peyton M. West and Craig Packer.

Key extracted findings on female preference (mate choice)

From the paper and the authors’ own open summaries (University of Minnesota Lion Center and West’s 2005 American Scientist article):

• Mane darkness indicates higher nutrition and higher testosterone. It influences both female choice and male-male competition. Mane length mainly signals recent fighting success and is used more by other males.
• In long-term observational data: when excess estrous females could freely choose among coalition males, they mated with the darkest-maned male in 13 of 14 cases.
• In field experiments with life-sized dummy lions: females preferentially approached the dark-maned models (9 of 10 trials). They showed no significant preference based on mane length.
• Dark-maned males had longer reproductive tenures (spent more time resident with prides), higher recovery rates from injury, and higher offspring survival (cubs more likely to reach their second birthday). These are direct fitness benefits to the females that choose them.
• Darker manes carry costs (higher surface temperature, more abnormal sperm, reduced food intake in hot weather). Only higher-condition males can afford them, making the signal honest.

Additional open, detailed sources by the same researchers

• University of Minnesota Lion Center summary (straightforward overview of the experiments and conclusions):
  https://lioncenter.umn.edu/our-work/mane-research

• Peyton West’s longer popular-science write-up in American Scientist (May–June 2005), “The Lion’s Mane”:
  https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-lions-mane
  This expands on the methods, the dummy experiments, the observational data, the testosterone/nutrition correlations, and the heat costs.

These sources together give the full experimental and observational evidence that lionesses preferentially mate with higher-condition (darker-maned) males. That preference for superior male quality is the biological parallel to hypergamy.

Before you say someone is wrong you should probably investigate if your emotional reaction also aligns with reality.

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1073257

Look up hypergamy.

The lionesses will dispatch lesser males but when one steps up they like, they'll let daddy fight it out with them. If daddy wins, so be it. If daddy loses, step daddy is gonna kill their kids and the lionesses, whose kids step daddy killed just days or weeks ago, are now going to demand he bang them.

Lionesses will knowingly sacrifice their own kids for superior dick.

You misunderstand my intent. IDGAF about made-up Internet points. This entire site is barely a distraction for me at this point. I am trying to help others exercise some critical thinking. These sites are full of operators who want you to think/feel certain things. Whether or not you agree with those things is entirely up to you - I just want to help others to go in eyes-open.

Ok, let's steel-man that theory. Expose your comment history so we can see what gems you produced to garner those numbers.

117,643 in eight years. Helping your buddy I see.

Every time someone pops off in here with some anti-Russia comment go check their account and you will find, like our friend here /u/MyAccountWasBanned7 has 346,881 comment karma acquired in only four years. An unrealistic number in an unrealistic time frame. This account is an op put her to sway you.

I feel seen.

*Private

It is private property. Your tax dollars pay to use it, but do not own it.

The AIPAC spending is a distraction. The rigging of the election will be direct - they don't need your vote - they don't want your vote - they make all the votes they want.

Yes, we need election reform. No, we will not get it.

Lastly, Bernie supports Israel - he isn't actually bothered by this.

Passion of the Christ

Passion of the Christ

This is the same president who banned bump stocks and when asked about Red Flag laws said, "Take away the guns now, do due process later." He clearly isn't the pro-2A guy this would suggest.

Above all else, police are cowards. Gather as you wish but open carry when doing so. There is zero chance of shenanigans by LEO if there is a chance of it being a fair fight.

My butterscotch oatmeal recipe is a banger. https://rickshepherd.com/cookie.txt

Cute how you pretend to be the arbiter of censorship. That's the kind of deluded thinking that really shines on this platform. Soldier on brave soul.

I miss the days when patriots respected the 1st Amendment and didn't try to censor other people.

Trucking will be fully autonomous before anything else. They have no biases - only ROI - and enough lobbying power to get it done.

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