Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation

Introduction

Bullying is characterized is one of the typical forms of aggression, which is denoted by the disproportion of power, furthermore the individual possessing more power intentionally and frequently tends to cause harm to other individuals, who are weaker in his/her perception. Bullying is mostly associated with the variety of negative and serious social outcomes. People, who are mostly connected to such behavior, are seen to be the victim of loneliness, depression, different kinds of anxiety, and lower level of self-actualization.

The history of bullying can be seen from as far as the history of ancient Greece, Rome and as well as the medieval China and Europe. In almost all of these historical societies bullying was seen as the result of maladaptive evolution, which was being developed on a geographical, historical as well as environmental scale. However it is not a compulsion that bullying will be only adapted through these mentioned determinant, it can also be a result of adaption of the behavior of the similar orientation of people.

Discussion

The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation is not an occurrence of a single time or at a specific place, it is somewhat the mixture of environments in which the adolescents and youngsters evolved with the passage of time and events. The definitive observations of these past environments can be made, however the inference of some basic properties of the EEA can be made. It is believe that adolescents and the youngsters had two imperative objectives from an evolutionary viewpoint: survival, vitality and Growth as one part and the attainment and security of mating opportunities, as another. These necessitate organisms to endure long enough to effectively reproduce.

The bullying is usually confused with the act of aggression; however there is a significant difference between both of them. In other ...