Linking Adolescent Bullying Perpetration With Adult Fertility: Two Preliminary Studies

Researchers have suggested that bullying perpetration is, at least in part, an evolved adaptation. A key prediction of this evolutionary perspective is that bullying facilitates the transmission of genes from one generation to the next. To date, only one study (using a limited measure of bullying) has examined the link between adolescent bullying and adult fertility, showing a positive association between adolescent bullying and number of …