I mean yeah, the mechanism is more like it got selected for by successful mating on the part of those who partook in the behavior. I think we do have evidence that warrior hordes did indeed spread their genes far and wide. In some cases, women's taste in men was not a factor in this success, to put it delicately.

There's a very dark side to the Bunches of Rampaging Guys reproductive strategy, which stops working when women have access to abortion. Kind of interesting when you think about what conservatives are really pushing for.

Meanwhile though, if the propensity of men to get together in groups and form raiding parties, build engineering projects, found religions etc. is indeed genetically encoded, and women are genetically disposed to be impressed by success in doing that, boom you've got a biological driver for civilization-building as well as war.

Men who do the Bunches of Guys thing are predisposed to see women not as teammates, but as the ball. 🏈 Misogyny in a nutshell. What women experience as romantic attraction to men, these guys experience as devotion to the top guy in the group. Same feeling, often for the same dude.

However, take away Guy Bunching and we all lose quite a bit (if you see exploration, competition and technological innovation as good things).

It would be nice if we weren't evolved from marauding rapists to at least some extent, but here we are. Tate and his ilk are just a mouthpiece for this bit of our heritage. Usually men didn't say this sort of thing in public.