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#520 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love
Modern Wisdom
Is Vasopressin a Male Equivalent of Oxytocin?
Vasopressin plays a very similar role to oxytocin in the sense that it was involved in water balance in somewhere originally. It's certainly been banded about as the male equivalent of oxytocin, certainly in the early literature when they were talking up oxytocin as the love hormone and the cure to the secrets of the universe. Of course, oxytocin is primarily present in females. Are we talking about female mammals in general? Yeah. So you have to have something that makes the female just kind of focus on being completely altruistic and nurturing this little thing until it's old enough to stand on its end two feet. And then they were left with the thing
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