Let’s imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don’t care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can’t resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.
How would this impact the civilisation ?
I know about David Brin’s *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.
Other primates usually only kill infants when they’re not the progenitor. They don’t kill them randomly
But it’s often 1 male that mates. So you have a lot more males that try to kill, rather than not. And if that 1 male wasn’t at the top, he’d be doing the same.
Sure. But the point isn’t murder it’s reproductive success.
The males are not interested in killing their own children. If they were, evolution would quickly remove them from the gene pool.
It’s difficult to apply modern western morals to other cultures much less other species.
I am aware of the reason behind the behaviour. I even mentioned that killing an infant gets the female in estrus sooner. I was merely pointing out that men aren’t like male monkeys. That men are able to find the idea of infanticide unacceptable, wereas male monkeys couldn’t care less.
I am not applying “modern western morals” on them. Strange way to phrase it too. Why not call it human morals? Why modern western?