Episode 70: Nicholas Christakis - Lessons From The Dying
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The Love a Woman Feels for a Man
There are theories that what happened is that these capacities which first evolved in the female members of our species to enhance the mother child bond eventually came to be applied to male partners. The idea was is that a woman female would signal to the mate that they had an attachment and thereby the male could be confident that the offspring of this woman were his because look at how much I love you, right? This is the kind of idea. It's unclear how true this is, although there is some evidence for this, but the weird part therefore is that when women, that men feel literal possession, they feel is kind of possessive desire for females. And that's what love is the origins of love
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