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#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love

Modern Wisdom

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Romance Language Poems

Humans have a form of serial monogamy in which people tend to move from one relationship to another on average, as it was. But unlike all the proper, properly monogamous mammals like dogs and gibbons these relationships aren't lifelong. What do you think's happening, evolutionarily there? Is that somebody lusting after someone and fearing that they are being told their genes are not good enough? That sounds very cruel. Look, I'm trying to break it down into your language here, Robin - unless you want to start pontificating about some romance language poetry stuff.

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