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#589 - 14 Lessons from 5 Years Of Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom

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The Body Positivity Movement Is a Non-Negligible Contributor to the Body Positive Movement

The behavior here is the same, right? It's still just sex. The explanations for it though are based on different sets of factors that incorporate physiological versus evolutionary motivations. Why would we like symmetrical faces in our partners? The proximate would be they look attractive. The ultimate would be symmetrical faces are genetically harder to create. And they indicate better quality of genes, which would be passed on for our future potential offspring. Right. So revisiting that quote from Tanya, natural selection favors certain behaviors, but doesn't necessarily favor us having explicit awareness of why we do what we do. That's how it can make us feel.

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