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- Social psychology and evolutionary biology are two branches of science that may explain love's origin. Social psychology usually looks at how culture and interpersonal relationships influence our emotions, while evolutionary biology normally looks at how natural selection has shaped our behavior.
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Feb 13, 2020 · Romantic love between men and women is a recent evolutionary development, associated with males helping females care for children. In most mammals, males are absentee fathers,...
Feb 15, 2010 · That said, it appears that when people are in love, among other neurological activities, two parts of their brain really get activated. They are called the caudate nucleus and the...
Jun 23, 2017 · The Greek philosopher Empedocles (d. 435 BCE) held that there are four primordial elements: air, earth, fire, and water. These elements are driven together and apart by the opposed cosmic...
Jul 29, 2023 · Love, the enigmatic force that binds us together, has evolved significantly throughout human history. From ancient civilizations to the complexities of modern relationships, the concept of love...
Dec 3, 2018 · “Love is limited to Western cultures,” according to others. This chapter explains why all these beliefs are radically wrong. From an evolutionary perspective, love is an adaptation, or more accurately a complex suite of adaptations, designed to solve specific problems of survival and reproduction.
- David M. Buss
- 2018
Mar 26, 2012 · Romantic love evolved, I argue, to motivate men and women to form pair-bonds. But why the need for this extra emotional energizer? I think the answer has to do with our primate evolutionary past.
Jul 14, 2022 · Although love may have primarily evolved because it supports sexual reproduction, love is of course still very much a part of life for gay, asexual and other people who do not sexually reproduce. Researchers who’ve investigated the evolution of same-sex attraction have argued that romantic relationships can provide adaptive advantages even ...