So long as we are careful to allow for our incomplete understanding of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, however, it may make sense to ask why natural selection would have built into us a desire for the social rewards that we can attain, under the right circumstances, through dramatic demonstrations of superior athleticism and bravery. Scientists pursuing such an inquiry would formulate and test hypotheses about how a recipient of these social rewards, living in a huntergatherer society, might convert them into reproductive success.