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Mix Up LOVE, And You Get V-O-L-E

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Prairie Voles and Oxytocin

Humans and prairie voles are both anomalies in terms of pair bonding and parenting. Prairie voles actually choose the partner they're going to be with. The learning process probably is based on the same physiology that human social attachments are. And oxytocin levels also seem to predict a lot of human pair bonding behavior.

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