Men only have a gas pedal in reproductive competition—maximize your own output—because female reproduction is biologically capped and any woman a man successfully suppresses would just be replaced by remaining men. Women have both a gas pedal AND a brake pedal because suppressing a rival's reproduction locks in 2+ years of gestation and breastfeeding that she cannot recover. This structural asymmetry explains why female competition looks more like a race where everyone spends most of their time tripping each other rather than sprinting forward.
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