Maladaptive Violence

The incident that I experienced was that one of physical violence. This occurrence happened while a group of friends and I where at a party. A guy that was at the party attempted to pursue my friend a couple times while we were there. On the last time the guy approached my friend her boyfriend was walking in and saw the exchange. While Omar asked my friend about the conversation another one of my friends buds inn and says that he had been approaching her since we arrived and sending friends to approaching her too. After this was said Omar decided to confront the guy to let him know that my friend was taken. This lead to a physical altercation between my friend’s boyfriend and the guy that tried to dance with her while we were at the gathering. Different type of violence can be adaptive and maladaptive. Adaptive meaning that this form of violence supports an individual to increase reproductive success through natural selection by living longer or through sexual selection by attracting a mate. On the other hand, Maladaptive would show that the type violence prevents an individual from increasing their reproductive success either …show more content…
This incident prevented the reproduction success or the reduction of their sexual selection. The individual who approached my friend throughout that night would be the person who would be seen as the one who took is the main focus in the maladaptive perspective. The incident that occurred allowed perspective mates to see that he was so desperate to look for a mate that to him it did not matter that my friend had a partner. This made him seam disrespectful not only towards my friend but towards Omar as well. The occurrence showed how disrespectful he was causing mate contenders to over see him as a possible partner or future husband who will procreate the future generation. This correspondingly shows how intrusive he can also be on top of being