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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation

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The Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism

The findings we have are not exclusively human. In every other species that has the same sort of size, asymmetry, and other dimorphism, you find a similar difference in sexual practice. And anything's possible. It's possible it's biological for a thousand other species and for humans. There's no biology at all. It's just a patriarchy. But it seems unparsimonious. Other factors, the same data emerges from gay men and gay women. So gay men who are attracted to men still want a lot of partners,. Gay women are attracted to women still want fewer.

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