What are the general characateristics of man? i mean in nature and behavior motives and all?

Question

man has desires. man searches for power, fame, status, wealth, excel..

man always has fears, doubts, virtue, love companions it is constant for man to have that. and man always wants more, i need to other aspects and information basis .. im confused.. pls enlighten me?

Answer 1

What you are refering to is the anthropological field of "human evolutionary ecology" which essentially states that our human genes dictate our behaviours and motives and whichever behaviours and motives enable the enactor to have the "best" reproductive success will become more prominent within the overall gene pool.  These traits, therefore become the "general" characteristics of man, and all mankind for that matter.  I have only done survey courses on this material, and therefore I would not be able to give you as good an aswer as some others, especially when dealing only with the limited context of "man", but I can provide you with the few examples that I can remember, but these examples are NOT unique to "men".  Alright, lets see... The grandmother hypothesis stipulates that grandmothers who are genetically hardwired to want to take care of their grandchildren allow their own offspring more time to find success in life and produce more children.  The Trivers-willard hypothesis states that low income families favour daughters where as high income families will favour their sons.  This is because no matter the income level daugters are virtually guaranteed reproductive success but poor families want their daughters to attract a man of a higher social standard, where as boys typically have better chances in their reproductive success if they attain a better economic and social standing.  Another study has shown that alturism has more success over many generations then only acting for ones self interests.  Apparently our culture creates mechanisms whereby altruists gain "allies" and in times of need garnish support, where as cheaters alienate themselves and then when times are bad they're really bad.  Anyways, all of these examples that I have described have been scientifically studied and have shown to have some "truths" within the empirical data.  A human evolutionary ecologist, therefore, could take any characteristic which defines the "behaviour and motives" of man and then define this in terms of genetics and how these charateristics are selected for or against in terms of reproductive success for all men.

I hope that this helps?

Answer 2

don't forgot about man are always horny.

Answer 3

i agree with skeez... man always wants s*x..

But above all else:  man wants to know... wheter we can know or not....is a different question all together...

the whole of life can be a man-made construct....

but certainly, man WANTS to know..