(Fe)male conflict

Often we see some fruits (like citrus) with multilocular, while some are with single (as in Jamun). Well, typically in a multilocular, all the seeds in individual locule were nourished uniformly, meaning all the produced ovules formed were "taken care" by the ovary (female). In Jamun, although there were many ovules, only the dominant ovule takes the lead and destroys the other ovules, hence only one becomes the seed. Let's park this aside for a while.

The very objective of every species on earth is to survive & perpetuate its own copy. Carefully looking at it, this also applies to gender. Female (plant or animal) contributes >70% to its babies, while male contributes <30%. Female, although being polyphagous (mate with multiple males), it needs to "take care" of all of its progenies due to the >70% contribution. To be very precise, from the perspective of female, all the babies are the representatives of Female. In contrast, from the perspective of male, only one dominant baby (came from its own pollen or sperm) is the representative, hence only that baby is to be established and not other babies arising from same female. Hence, every male sends the genic signals to its "own" baby to compete (or kill) other babies. This is the *origin of ♂ <-> ♀ parental conflict*. When I say, "conflict", it is only from our cultural perceptive. In a biological evolution, this is just a survival competition between ♂ & ♀.

Having said that, let's look at fruits. Typically an ovary makes a multi locule (or a placenta) to protect the seeds in individual room and nourish all the seeds. (Female dominated evolution as in Citrus), because the mother wants to protect all its babies. In contrast, the fruits with the single locule, although many ovules are formed, one dominates during development and destroys others (Male dominated evolution as in Jamun). Although it appears that male seems to be "selfish", both the genders are "selfish" (from a biological perspective) for their perpetuation. And that's by design (we call it as nature/etc).

Basically, every conflict among individuals on earth is due to selfishness and that's by design. In Humans, although we culturally evolved with monophagous mating pattern recently (in the last few 1000 years), the DNA would still encourage the competitiveness for its dominance, survival and perpetuation. ♂ <-> ♀; Husband <-> wife; Siblings conflicts are obvious. Siblings fight during childhood is from DNA, while they become a good friends later is the culture that parents drive in.

Yesterday evening when Kavin shouted, அம்மாஆஆஆ, சௌமிதா என் பென்சிலை திருடிட்டா...!, I was just smiling within myself, it is the evolution, but stopped when heard another shouting, பசங்க சண்டை போட்டுட்டிருக்கும் போது, போய் என்னன்னு பாக்காம உங்களுக்கென்ன சிரிப்பு வேண்டியிருக்கு...?!

Response

என்னப்பா .. எவ்வளோ பெரிய விஷயத்தை சொல்லியிருக்கேன்... சாதாரணமா 2.0, 1.0..-னு சொல்லிட்ருக்கீங்களே..!

The onliner message is, male female conflict (or dominance) is obvious due to natural fitness.