Any caged tiger is a very sad sight, and Tiger Woods is no exception. Last week he issued a tormented statement in which he revealed that athletes perfect, the god of golf, it's still a human being. The question everyone is asking is why someone like Tiger - whose ego has no need of having to increase their self-esteem, with a beautiful wife and adorable children - feel the need, as he himself said, " transgress. "
To fully understand what happened to Tiger Woods, we must put the clock back very much, going back to the times when the human personality was evolving, returning to the hundreds of thousands of years in which men lived in small tribal groups of hunters and gatherers. It was then that the human mating behavior changed radically. Instead of having a specific mating season, like most mammals, humans began to remain sexually active throughout the year. The girls stopped to express their period of ovulation blatantly, and showed themselves ready to mate even when they could not conceive. Human beings were not limited to sex, but fell in love. The couple became stable, paving the way for the human family unit.
If this system based on the couple has been so useful to our ancestors, why then the trend has not improved, so that when they fall in love their emotional bond is so solid to ensure that any sexual interest in other adults is automatically disabled? The answer is that a certain flexibility in the system was necessary, because often the young men of the tribe were killed during the hunt and sometimes young women died giving birth to their children. If the survivors have had to remain faithful forever with their partners, it would mean that after a family tragedy from the standpoint of playing there would be a waste, and this was a problem in small tribe of true survival.
flexibility in coupling implied that the risk of sexual interest outside of the pair always exists. In small tribal communities there were few opportunities to give rise to problems of large scope, but in today's urban society everything is of course different, and we see an endless number of divorces. You may wonder at this point because husbands and wives to be unfaithful even when they are part of a family that works and even if their partners are not tragically died young.
What causes them to embark on sexual potentially disastrous? In evolutionary terms, the adult male is led to "take action" by two distinct reproductive needs, both motivated by a concern to be sure he tramanderà their genes to the next generation. The prevailing strategy is to devote a large proportion of their time and their energy to raise children born within the couple. Less a strategy, going back to an ancient past, is what puts it in the condition if they have the opportunity to give birth to other random children, to do so provided that this does not hinder its primary strategy. This means that the man who loves his wife and their children may find it difficult to resist the temptation of a brief sexual adventure. And so, even in a happy marriage, both partners can sometimes "break" the power of this primitive reproductive stress. (C. 2009, Telegraph. Co. Uk translation Anna Bissanti)
DESMOND MORRIS
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