Importance Of Aggression Behavior

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Aggression behavior is important behavior because it helps both humans and non-humans primates survive in their daily basis life. Aggression behavior causes emotionally or physically damage to others. It can be considered aggressive behavior through physical abuse to verbal abuse. This behavior helps humans as well as non-humans primates defend for themselves and showing an aggressive behavior makes others sense that they are not an easy target. It creates fear and in order to survive both parties need to be tough. Aggression behavior is a learned behavior and it can be a natural behavior as well due to the genes. Humans and nonhuman primates learn aggression behavior as well they show it when it comes to social status.
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Aggression is a behavior indented to hurt someone or something physically or emotionally. Aggression in humans can be caused by different reasons. Wanting to get revenge on someone who hurt them can be a caused as well as when they are being under attack. Researches state that bullies are aggressive due to the abuse they receive at home which makes those people become angry and want to take their anger out on the weak. Trainor mentions that behaviors like aggression evolved in ways of adaptations in order to deal with competition, but sometimes when they are expressed out of their context they seem to have some kind of consequences (2007). Whips states that “Aggression in nonhuman primates goes beyond protecting one 's territory, mates, offspring and food (2009). Natural selection seems to favor the behaviors that expand instead of those that reduce reproductive effort and success (Mckenna, 2009). Mckenna mentions that aggression is a behavior that has evolved through natural selection and most of their genes are influence by the primates aggression behavior, it is supported by natural selection. Natural selection seems to favor on the traits that provide a reproductive advantage (2009). Primates and …show more content…

If their species attack other species they are being taught that it is okay to be aggressive. Different primates are taught to be aggressive due to the circumstances in which they may live in. If they live out in the wild they are forced to be aggressive in order to survive and not be attacked. Aggressive is a learned behavior because primates fight for their food as well as having to attack in order to protect their families as well as protecting their territories. They learn this behavior from seeing others doing it and it is something that is followed.
Mckenna states that among human aggression is used usually when it comes to political, economic, and ideologically and for primates it is between mates, food, and shelter (2009). Mckenna also states that sometimes there are problems between different groups who develop some kind of competition for their resources in which includes mating parents or for their food (2009). “Researchers can easily bring to mind images of animals competing aggressively for mates, for food, or for other resources needed for survival and reproduction” (Trainor, 2007). Research conduct that gorillas mother acquire their little infants by giving them face expression to

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