I think it is interesting to consider a race from a neutral emotional point to one of strong emotion. Maybe men can reach rage, really deadly, lethal rage more quickly than women. I suspect that women are much faster at attaining or simulating other, positive emotions than men are. It must be that nature tends to provide the female nervous system with components and sensitivities that will help a mother bring her children to maturity. I have seen a woman tending to a little child while expressing strong negative feelings.
The woman coos and talks lovingly and gently with the child in the stroller who has just dropped her ice cream cone while turning her head and snapping at her husband over the matter they are discussing. She switches back and forth between gentle, loving mothering and adult defense of her ideas or plans or irritations. She never coos lovingly to the big sap (while in this little spat) and she never growls or snarls at Snookums in the stroller.
It seems to me that men find such emotional hopping too tiring. They can be grumpy and growly with everyone or cooing and lovey-dovey with everyone but rapid switching back and forth doesn't seem to be in their toolkit. I guess mothers might need to be able to assist a kid emotionally and physically at any time and so develop tools to do so effectively. Male primates are mostly about defense against other males and dangers and might not need to be sweet suddenly and abruptly. That is my speculation, anyhow.
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Bill
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